Fiona Turner

Partner

"Fiona Turner is a true professional. She is responsive, sensible, measured and courteous. I find her a pleasure to deal with. She is emotionally intelligent and ensures clients see the ‘bigger’ picture while vigorously defending their position. She is definitely a safe pair of hands."

Legal 500 2024

"Fiona is unflappable, readily available and gives pragmatic and client-driven advice. She is excellent at seeing the bigger picture and manages to be both robust and empathetic."

Chambers and Partners 2023

"Fiona Turner is a well-respected lawyer who is dependable and pleasant to deal with. Fiona is well known amongst family law professionals for her reputation."

Legal 500 2023

"Fiona Turner is extremely efficient and knowledgeable. I completely trusted her approach and she was very amenable and approachable."

Chambers & Partners 2022

"Thank you for your pragmatism, kindness and organised handling of my divorce. I can't express enough how grateful I am. It's such a heart-breaking time and difficult to be thorough and plain thinking when you are in the thick of it. YOU have been the right amount of everything. Thank you again."

Divorce Client

"Fiona is by far the best family solicitor I have ever met."

Anonymous client

"You have been outstanding and I genuinely do not know what I would have done without you especially during some very difficult days."

Anonymous client

Biography

Fiona joined Weightmans' family law team in 2015. As a partner with 30 years' experience, she deals exclusively with family law issues. Having practised in London with leading and innovative family law firms before relocating to Manchester, Fiona has a global practice, dealing with matters for clients wherever they are based — whether in the North West region, London or elsewhere in the UK or overseas.

Main practice areas include advising on wealth protection strategies (including pre and post nuptial agreements and cohabitation agreements); divorce and dissolution (including international issues), financial settlements for married and unmarried couples (often involving businesses, land (including farms), trusts and pensions), children law and international relocation cases.

Fiona and the team at Weightmans provide a bespoke, tailor-made service for each individual client. Fiona offers a range of dispute resolution options as a trained mediator, collaborative lawyer and litigator and is recognised for providing strategic case management and a focused, realistic and discreet approach to clients.

Former clients include high net worth and high profile individuals, entrepreneurs, business owners, land owners and professionals.

In one matter on which Fiona was instructed, the Court of Appeal stated that they had "never seen a financial case of greater complexity".

Fiona is an accredited member of the nationwide family law organisation Resolution and is Secretary of the Manchester Resolution Committee. She is a member of the Manchester Dispute Resolution Group and chairs/presents to a number of other professional groups.

She is a co-author of previous editions of Resolution's Good Practice guidance and regularly writes for the national and local press.

Fiona is recognised as a leader in her field by the Legal Directories and fellow professionals.

Fiona is part of the winning team named Family Law Firm of the Year at the LexisNexis Family Law Awards.