Our Team

Yomi has specialised in divorce and family law for over 13 years. Her clients come from a range of backgrounds and she adapts her approach to their particular needs and circumstances, whilst ensuring that common sense is applied alongside the law.

Yomi represents clients in complex children cases, including those with an international aspect, or involving social services and is experienced in dealing with emergency matters at short notice. Her priority is to try and advise on the best course of action to try and maintain family relationships, by reaching an agreement with the other parent regarding child-related issues but where this cannot be achieved, Yomi is experienced in applying to the court to obtain the best possible outcome for her clients and children.

She regularly advises on the financial consequences resulting from the breakdown of relationships, covering a wide range of assets from the modest to those involving complex business structures such as partnerships, companies and trusts.

Yomi advises on pre and post nuptial and living together agreements to protect assets prior to couples getting married or when cohabiting. She has considerable experience dealing with the complex issues of relationship breakdown between cohabitees/unmarried couples, particularly where there are children who require financial provision including claims under the Children Act including contact, residence, parental responsibility, international relocation and ToLATA property disputes.

She is a member of Resolution, an organisation founded by family justice professionals who work to resolve issues in a constructive way, and she endeavours where possible to resolve disputes through negotiation. Yomi also understands, however, that taking immediate and decisive action is sometimes the only way to protect her client’s interests and regularly assists them in the court system.

Yomi Oni-Williams qualified as a solicitor in 2003. She has a BA in Classics and a LLB (Hons) from the University of Leeds and went on to do her Legal Practice Course at the College of Law in London.

Yomi’s family law specialisms:

Children

• Child Arrangements
• Applications to take children abroad temporarily or permanently
• Rights of unmarried parents
• Child Abduction
• Special Guardianship Orders
• Adoption
• Declaration of Parentage

Family law

• Divorce and Separation Agreement
• Judicial Separation
• Cohabitation Agreement
• Financial Settlements for married and unmarried couples
• Pension on Divorce
• Forced marriage protection
• Annulment of marriage
• Domestic Violence and Injunction Applications
• ToLATA and Property disputes

With more than a decade’s experience, Yomi has a national and international reputation for her specialist knowledge in quality immigration work and is passionate about offering cost-effective services to all of her clients. She is able to use her insightful expertise to sympathetically direct clients as to the nature of their applications and appeals, putting them at ease.

Yomi advises individuals across a broad range of UK immigration matters, ranging from advising on leave to remain as a partner or parent, family and dependant visa applications, indefinite leave to remain and UK citizenship applications, Registration of children as British citizens, Tier 1 investors, Appeals and Administrative Reviews.

Yomi is also advising European Nationals on how they might be affected by Brexit and the UK’s exit from the EU. This includes what steps to take in light of the new EU Settlement Scheme including obtaining pre-settled status, leave to remain applications or how to apply to become naturalised as a British citizen before the 2021 deadline.

She has an impeccable success rate in respect of all aspects of Family immigration applications, Nationality applications, Human Rights and a wealth of immigration matters. She is renowned for her ability in advising on particularly challenging cases, especially those involving children. Her field of expertise also covers Appeals to First and Upper Tribunals and Judicial Review applications.

Yomi Oni-Williams qualified as a solicitor in 2003. She has a BA in Classics and a LL.B (Hons) from the University of Leeds and went on to do her Legal Practice Course at the College of Law in London.

Yomi’s immigration specialisms:

• Business-related immigration under Tier 1 and Tier 2
• Tier 5 – Youth mobility scheme visa to live and work in the UK
• Tier 4 – student visas to study in the UK
• British citizenship applications
• Indefinite leave to remain applications
• Leave to remain applications for parents and partners
• Applications for settled or pre-settled status under the new EU Settlement Scheme
• Family and dependant related visa applications for children, spouses, civil partners, fiancés and unmarried partners
• UK ancestry visas
• All types of immigration appeals and Judicial Review Applications
• Human Rights and outside of the rules applications
• Visitor’s visas

Yomi can advise you on all aspects of Wills and Probate, her key experience being in Will preparation, probate and administration of estates including cases of intestacy, inheritance tax and lasting powers of attorney.

A well-drafted Will gives you the peace of mind of knowing that your possessions are distributed as you would like them on your passing. Yomi can assist you with drafting a valid Will that accurately reflects your wishes and can advise on executors, beneficiaries and implications regarding Inheritance Tax.

Lasting Powers of Attorney (LPAs) are important documents that enable you to give permission to others to handle your affairs and make decisions on your behalf if you are no longer able to do so. Yomi can help ensure that the wording in your LPAs is sufficiently precise and protects your interests.

Administering an estate, ‘probate’, can be complex, and even where an estate is relatively modest, complications can arise at a time when people are already suffering from the stress and the anxiety caused by the death of a loved one. Yomi can assist you with all aspects of the administration of an estate whether or not there is a Will, whether the estate be small or large or somewhere in between.

Yomi Oni-Williams qualified as a solicitor in 2003. She has a BA in Classics and a LL.B (Hons) from the University of Leeds and went on to do her Legal Practice Course at the College of Law in London.

Yomi’s Wills and Probate specialisms:

• Will drafting
• Lasting Powers of Attorney
• Probate and ascertaining full details and value of estate
• Advising on protection and insurance of assets post-death
• Preparing application for Probate where appropriate or Letters of Administration
• Calculation of Inheritance Tax
• Liaising with asset holders
• Obtaining Grant of Probate and completing all tax formalities
• Day to day administration of the estate
• Gathering in assets and arranging disposals where necessary
• Preparing, agreeing and distributing full estate accounts
• Obtaining clearance for IHT purposes
• Paying legacies and distributing net estate to beneficiaries
• Advising executors regarding potential claims