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Rosemary is located at:

Bournemouth Office
Russell House
Oxford Road
Bournemouth
BH8 8EX
DX: 7623
Southampton Office
Alleyn House
Carlton Crescent
Southampton
SO15 2EU
DX: 96882
London Office
120 Moorgate
London
EC2M 6UR

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She's very efficient with her work and provides really sound advice to her clients. She has a really effective manner with clients.Close quote
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Rosemary Sharp has excellent judgment. She provides pragmatic solutions, and is tenacious and robustly effective in achieving the best outcomes for clients.Close quote
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Rosemary Sharp is fantastic. Over the last 12 months we have worked on some very challenging cases together but I have felt supported, safe in the knowledge that Rosie knows her stuff and always works hard. Rosie makes it very easy to work in a team and I know that we will strive to get the best result for the client together. Rosie is on top of her game.Close quote
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I just want to say a big Thank You to you and the team for getting me through this. I have appreciated all that you have done to keep this moving forward.Close quote
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The practice at Lester Aldridge LLP places particular attention to the resolution of financial remedy cases. The team is also well equipped to handle children matters, including TOLATA related claims. Rosemary Sharp - 'a beacon in the field of family law' - heads the team; she is experienced in handling international matters, with particular experience in South African based arrangements.Close quote
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Rosemary Sharp is a beacon in the field of family law. Rosemary is a strong leader and her presence is impressive and persuasive.Close quote
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Rosemary Sharp heads the family law practice at Lester Aldridge. She is an experienced lawyer who advises clients on divorce and matrimonial finance matters, as well as private children law.

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"Rosemary provides excellent service at all times and is a credit to her profession."

"She is excellent at getting to the nub of cases and providing emotional reassurance to the client while being pragmatic about settling."

"Rosie has a lovely, vibrant personality that clients warm to."Close quote
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Rosemary is a partner at Lester Aldridge, who heads up the firm’s Family team.  She advises a wide range of clients on all aspects of private family law. Her work predominantly focuses on divorce and financial claims arising on divorce.  Many of her cases involve businesses and complex income arrangements, complex pensions, farming assets, landed estates and trusts.

Rosemary’s work includes private children matters, contact & residence and financial provision for children following an unmarried relationship breakdown.

She also regularly advises on wealth protection issues such as prenuptial and postnuptial agreements.

Rosemary’s approach and strategy are always tailored to each client and focused on their goals. Where possible, she always tries to find a pragmatic solution for clients. If a court application is necessary, her advice is robust and practical.

Rosemary trained at a firm specialising in HNW private client matters and joined their family team upon qualification in 2010. She subsequently moved to join the family team at Lester Aldridge in 2017 and has led the team since May 2020.

  • Resolution member
  • Treasurer of Dorset Resolution
  • Trustee of the Family Counselling Trust

Recent examples of work or case studies:

  • Negotiated the terms of a prenuptial agreement which involved French assets. I acted for an English client whose fiancé was The parties were living in England then but were considering relocating to France. I liaised closely with French lawyers to ensure the prenuptial agreement would be appropriate in both jurisdictions.
  • Acted for a husband in divorce and financial remedy proceedings. The husband was focused on protecting his family business, and significant issues surrounded the value of the husband’s shares. We reached a settlement that did not involve the sale of the husband’s shares, and the lower value was attributed to his shares for negotiation.
  • Acted for a mother and successfully obtained a prohibited steps order preventing the children’s father from removing them from the jurisdiction. We agreed to a child arrangements order with limited contact to minimise the risk of abduction and creative safeguards to ensure the children would remain in England.
  • Acted for a father who was successful in opposing the mother’s international relocation application.  Mother had applied to relocate internationally with their child. Advised the father throughout the contested proceedings and at the final hearing, after evidence, mother agreed to withdraw her application and new contact arrangements were agreed.

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