The Global Legal Post today launches the latest title in its Law Over Borders series – the Family Asset Protection Law Guide: Divorce, Finance and the Media.
The new edition brings together leading family law and trust experts from around the world to provide comparative insight into the protection of family assets in a cross-border context.
The 2025 edition is edited by Marcus Dearle, managing partner at Miles Preston, and James Sheedy, a partner at Collas Crill. The guide examines how jurisdictions across the globe handle the treatment of trusts, the enforcement of pre- and post-nuptial agreements, disclosure and cross-border enforcement, and the growing influence of media reporting in family proceedings.
The guide opens with a foreword by Sir Philip Moor, the former High Court family division judge, who retired from the bench in 2024 and now practises at 1 Hare Court. Reflecting on his career, he writes: “When I first started as a family barrister, working in London in the early 1980s, international family law was in its infancy. Today, it is a crucial and vitally important aspect of practice.”
He adds: "A guide that assists in understanding the law in other jurisdictions is invaluable in assisting practitioners to grapple with issues that arise regularly, but are, so often, subtly different and almost always involve a different jurisdiction to the last time the problem was encountered."
Contributors include leading practitioners from Australia, Cayman Islands, England & Wales, France, Guernsey, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Jersey, Scotland, South Africa and the United States (New York). Each chapter provides both technical analysis and strategic insight, enabling readers to compare legal frameworks and enforcement mechanisms across jurisdictions.
The print version of the Family Asset Protection Law Guide, which will be officially launched at Luxury Law Summit New York on 12 November, is also available as an interactive online resource and a free downloadable PDF.
The publication forms part of The Global Legal Post’s Law Over Borders series of comparative guides covering key areas of cross-border practice, including restructuring and insolvency, data protection and luxury law.
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