Afsana Shaukat

Afsana is a specialist Family Law Solicitor and a Resolution Accredited Specialist, with extensive experience in dealing with Private Law matters.
Afsana has represented parents and grandparents as both Applicants and Respondents in children law proceedings. She also has a wealth of experience in dealing with divorce and financial matters.
Afsana provides sensitive, yet robust representation and adopts a practical, proactive approach to each case, ensuring that her clients are given thorough and realistic advice from the very beginning till the conclusion of their case.
Afsana has experience in representing clients in cases involving issues of serious domestic violence, sexual abuse, and parental alienation. She has regularly supported clients through Finding of Fact Hearings and Contested Final Hearings in matters involving complex legal and factual issues and achieved positive outcomes for them.
Afsana is described by clients as someone who gives ‘a professional service from the outset and throughout’.
Afsana is fluent in Urdu and Punjabi and is content to conduct meetings and take instructions in these languages.

Memberships & Accreditations
The Law Society
Resolution Accredited Specialist

Notable Cases

Leeds Family Court [2023]
Successfully represented my client to secure a Non-Molestation Order after she had suffered years of abuse.

Leeds Family Court [2022]
Secured a specific Issue order for my client which allowed her to change her child’s surname as the father had been absent from the child’s life since his birth.

Leeds Family Court [2022]
Assisted my client in financial proceedings and secured her 75% of the matrimonial assets which included the family home to be transferred into her sole name.

Wakefield Family Court [2022]
Secured a Prohibited Steps Order for a father to prevent the child’s mother removing the child from his care. I further successfully secured a live with order in favour of my client.

Leeds Family Court [2021]
Successfully secured overnight contact for a grandmother in a case where the mother was refusing my client any form of contact at all.

Leeds Family Court [2021]
Assisted my client in obtaining a decree absolute after a prolonged divorce application whereby his wife was not engaging in the court process.

Wakefield Family Court [2020]
Assisted client in making an application to vary an existing contact order which was no longer working for the father and his work pattern.

Bradford Family Court [2020]
Successfully challenged mothers’ allegations of domestic violence against the father at a fact find hearing and secured a contact order.

Birmingham Family Court [2019]
Successfully applied to enforce an existing contact order in which the court found a breach and ordered the immediate reinstatement of contact and awarded the clients complete costs.

Leeds Family Court [2019]
Successfully secured 70% of the matrimonial assets for a client following protracted ancillary relief proceedings.

Leeds Family Court [2018]
Successfully secured a decree absolute for a client who petitioned for divorce which was defended by the respondent on the basis that a divorce had already taken place in a different jurisdiction.

Leeds Family Court [2018]
Successfully secured contact for a grandmother who was being denied contact by the child’s mother.

Huddersfield Family Court [2018]
Successfully secured an urgent Non-molestation Order for a client who was the victim of serious domestic violence perpetrated by her ex-partner.

Huddersfield Family Court [2017]
Successfully secured overnight contact for a client in a case where the mother was refusing to promote any form of contact at all.