Bell & Buxton Solicitors has announced that Demelza Wrigley, head of the family team, has been appointed as a partner at the firm.
Demelza is an award-winning family lawyer who deals with all aspects of separation and divorce and its implications, including finances, children issues, and proceedings, injunctions and domestic abuse and disputes between unmarried couples.
She is collaboratively trained, an accredited member of Resolution, a national body which recognises specialist knowledge and skills in areas of family law, and is accredited in children matters domestic abuse.
Demelza studied at Sheffield Hallam University and The College of Law (York) and qualified as a solicitor in 2003, she became an Associate at Bell & Buxton in 2015.
In 2017, Demelza won the ‘Family Law Award’ at the Yorkshire Legal Awards.
Charles Neal, partner said: “Since joining the firm in 2013, Demelza Wrigley has headed the growing Family Department and has worked tirelessly for our family clients. We are thrilled that she has accepted the position of partner and look forward to sharing her wisdom and expertise on the partnership board.”
Demelza said: “I am delighted to have been offered this opportunity and very much looking forward to the next chapter.”