Partner, Head of Family & Matrimonial Department
Michela Hughes is a partner in our Family & Matrimonial department and is extremely client focused with an approachable, warm manner and a tenacious attitude. Her areas of practice include:
- divorce;
- financial claims arising from divorce;
- Children Act (with a particular focus on international and internal relocations, cases concerning coercion and control);
- separation agreements;
- co-habitation disputes; and
- pre- and post-nuptial agreements.
Michela has a strong reputation in her field with a significant part of her practice focused on financial claims arising from divorce. Her reported case of SS v NS [2014] EWHC 4183 is still ranked as one of the leading family law cases on the subject of spousal maintenance and demonstrates clearly Michela’s shrewd commercial approach. Michela has also recently been reported in G v N [2025] EWFC 286, in respect of securing 100 percent of the former home for a husband following significant periods of separation.
Michela’s interests outside the law include fine art, yoga and travelling.
