9 July 2025
2025 marks my 25th year in law as a qualified solicitor in England and Wales. As such, it felt important to mark the occasion as life is precious and passes by so quickly. Successful family life is a personal aspiration and central focus for many people. Families are an important pillar of society too. Yet despite this, building and maintaining happy, healthy and well-functioning personal and family lives can be difficult to achieve given the often uncertain and complex world around us. Over the last 25 years, it has therefore been an absolute privilege to draw alongside so many parents, children and families and I remain ever mindful of people’s continuing trust and faith in me to help them navigate life’s sunshine, storms and choppy waters.
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I became a family and fertility lawyer because I was, and remain, committed to helping people manage their personal relationships and protect their families. I care about what happens to people and their loved-ones, including their partners and spouses, children and grandchildren. I have been acutely aware from the start of my legal career of the demands, sacrifices, challenges and rewards intrinsically bound up with people’s private and family lives. For the last twenty five years, I have witnessed their struggles to have a much-wanted family and children and the highs and lows that accompany this. I have drawn alongside them when they have been in the heady throes of love, their relationships have ended, their personal lives have been upended and infertility has taken its heavy toll. I therefore set out, and continue, to help people strategically, legally and practically navigate the ups and downs of love, relationships, baby making, parenthood, relationship breakdown, illness and ultimately death. It has been an absolute privilege to do so and I remain ever mindful of people’s continuing trust and faith in me to help them navigate life’s sunshine, storms and choppy waters.
I started my practical family law training in 1998 fresh out of law school in my early twenties and qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales in 2000. As a young woman in law, I had no idea back then what my career choice would demand, nor how far my legal career would take me. I certainly had no inkling that my career would later take a different path and lead me to become an early pioneer of fertility law in the UK, co-found the UK’s first fertility law firm in 2009 and found my own specialist fertility and family law firm Louisa Ghevaert Associates in 2019. Nor did I envisage that I would go on to handle landmark legal cases or develop special interests in assisted conception, health, genomics and public policy that would enable to meet so many interesting people and visit all sorts of places across the UK and overseas.
Over the last twenty five years, I have drawn alongside thousands of people and witnessed the commitment, love, heartache, loss, stress and determination they have devoted to their lovers, partners, spouses, family building, children and families. It has demanded a great deal of time, energy and commitment from each and every one of them as well as me. It has also resulted in a legal career that has been full of surprises; the rewards of securing legal protection for parents and children and meeting someone’s hard-won baby for the first time never fails to make my day and bring a smile to my face.
Ultimately, children can bring great fulfilment and joy to every-day life and they represent not just the future of individual families but society as well. Added to this, successful personal relationships and family dynamics can take life to a whole new level; providing love and companionship that sustains people through difficult times and helps them enjoy and celebrate the good times together in life. Every person, relationship, family and child matters and each deserves care, consideration, legal recognition and protection.
Need Advisory, Consultancy a Fertility or Modern Family Lawyer?
If you need advisory, consultancy or legal assistance to put in place effective strategies to manage preconception, fertility treatment and global family building, pregnancy, birth and general and family life contact Louisa Ghevaert by email louisa@louisaghevaertassociates.co.uk or telephone +44 (0)20 7965 8399.
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