Katie Taft

Family Mediator

Family Law

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About

In both her mediation practice and her legal work, Katie is committed to resolving disputes with the minimum amount of acrimony and costs. Katie’s approach is professional, empathetic, expedient and pragmatic. She is able to draw on her significant experience to mediate efficiently and effectively, avoiding the need for time consuming, stressful and expensive litigation. Katie strives to ensure that where relationship breakdown involves children, they remain front and centre of the mediation process throughout. 

Area of Expertise

  • Financial disputes on divorce, often including properties, pension, business and tax issues
  • Arrangements for children
  • Complex cases involving domestic abuse, neurodiversity, personality disorders and narcissistic characteristics
  • Complex cases involving children (domestic abuse, medical treatment, schooling)
  • International children disputes (abduction, relocation, issues of jurisdiction)
  • Schedule 1 Children Act claims (financial claims for children)
  • Special Guardianship for children (grandparents and other family members)
  • High conflict disputes
  • Hybrid/integrated mediation

Experience & Qualifications

Katie is a highly experienced family lawyer and mediator. Katie qualified as a solicitor in 2010 and as a mediator in 2013. She has been a partner in the family team at Ellis Jones since 2018 and is accredited by Resolution as a specialist in private children disputes and child abduction.

Katie was accredited as a mediator by the Family Mediation Council in 2016. Katie is also qualified to undertake integrated (hybrid) mediation and is therefore able to involve various professionals within the mediation process (solicitors, accountants, pension advisors and therapeutic support) ensuring that every mediation is tailored to individual circumstances.

About

In both her mediation practice and her legal work, Katie is committed to resolving disputes with the minimum amount of acrimony and costs. Katie’s approach is professional, empathetic, expedient and pragmatic. She is able to draw on her significant experience to mediate efficiently and effectively, avoiding the need for time consuming, stressful and expensive litigation. Katie strives to ensure that where relationship breakdown involves children, they remain front and centre of the mediation process throughout. 

Area of Expertise

  • Financial disputes on divorce, often including properties, pension, business and tax issues
  • Arrangements for children
  • Complex cases involving domestic abuse, neurodiversity, personality disorders and narcissistic characteristics
  • Complex cases involving children (domestic abuse, medical treatment, schooling)
  • International children disputes (abduction, relocation, issues of jurisdiction)
  • Schedule 1 Children Act claims (financial claims for children)
  • Special Guardianship for children (grandparents and other family members)
  • High conflict disputes
  • Hybrid/integrated mediation

Experience & Qualifications

Katie is a highly experienced family lawyer and mediator. Katie qualified as a solicitor in 2010 and as a mediator in 2013. She has been a partner in the family team at Ellis Jones since 2018 and is accredited by Resolution as a specialist in private children disputes and child abduction.

Katie was accredited as a mediator by the Family Mediation Council in 2016. Katie is also qualified to undertake integrated (hybrid) mediation and is therefore able to involve various professionals within the mediation process (solicitors, accountants, pension advisors and therapeutic support) ensuring that every mediation is tailored to individual circumstances.