Tatiana Rocha

Tatiana is instructed in all areas of private children disputes including applications for Child Arrangements Orders, Prohibited Steps Orders and Specific Issues Orders. She has experience representing parents at fact-finding and final hearings, both pursuing and defending against allegations of serious domestic abuse, parental alienation and breach of court orders.

Tatiana has successfully argued both for and against transfers of residence, relocation, and applications for ‘shared care’. Tatiana takes a personal interest in her clients’ cases and takes a kind and compassionate approach to ensure clients feel understood and cared for throughout proceedings.

H v W [2024]
The mother successfully appealed an interim transfer of residence. At an urgent hearing, the court transferred the residence of the children to the father due to the mother having tested positive for cocaine. On appeal, the mother argued that the court failed to give sufficient consideration to the allegations of domestic abuse and had essentially pre-judged the final outcome by making such a draconian interim order.
The court heard lengthy submissions on the legal principles in respect of interim transfers of residence and on appeals. The Circuit Judge granted the mother’s appeal and returned the children to her care. 

Tatiana gained experience in a variety of complex care proceedings, including cases concerning non-accidental injury, sexual abuse and chronic neglect.

Tatiana has represented vulnerable parties, who require a pragmatic and creative approach to ensure their needs are met, even when there are limited assets in the marital pot. Under the supervision of Michael Glaser KC, Tatiana gained experience in complex financial matters involving significant wealth, trusts, business valuations and non-matrimonial assets.

K v S [2025]
The husband brought enforcement proceedings following the wife’s breach of a consent order made in 2019. The wife failed to pay two lump sums owed to the husband in 2021 and 2023. The husband sought an order for the FMH to be sold.

The wife, in turn, asked the court to consider varying the order made in 2019 under Thwaite jurisdiction. The legal question was whether the court had jurisdiction to vary the order if no such application has been made.

Tatiana successfully represented the husband, and the court ordered enforcement of the order and an order for sale of the FMH in default of payment.

E v B [2025]
Following the breakdown of a long marriage, W sought to retain the FMH under a Mesher Order and further sought spousal maintenance to continue to meet her needs post-separation. The husband sought immediate sale of the FMH and clean break. The husband had recently started a business in the tech industry and relied on his financial circumstances being uncertain.

The court granted the Mesher Order and unusually, if not controversially, granted an order for nominal maintenance (leaving the door open for the wife to bring the matter back to court to increase the quantum of maintenance).

H v C v C [2024]
The court faced a complex legal question regarding the ownership of the FMH. The husband and intervener (his mother) both sought to rely on a Declaration of Trust that pre-dated the TP1 (which listed the husband and his mother as joint tenants). Despite the TP1 forming an express Declaration of Trust, the Judge concluded that the Trust created was contrary to the parties’ intentions and that the original Declaration should stand. As such, the wife had no interest in the FMH.

Final Hearing, Application for relocation to Poland, Re [2024] EWFC 283 (B) Tatiana successfully represented a client seeking to relocate internationally.

BB v CC [2024] EWHC 2693 (Fam) Tatiana Rocha represented the mother at a High Court fact-finding hearing at which serious findings were made of rape and threats to kill. Despite the father denying each and every allegation, following lengthy cross-examination, all allegations were proved. The judgment deals with the complexity of navigating allegations of abuse with a perpetrator who suffers from severe mental health difficulties.

Final Hearing, Application for relocation to Poland, Re [2024] EWFC 283 (B) Tatiana successfully represented a client seeking to relocate internationally.