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I am a family lawyer who specialises in acting for high net worth individuals. My practice covers financial remedies on divorce as well as mid and post nuptial agreements, and for cohabitees, financial claims and agreements. My expertise includes all matters relating to the welfare of children, from financial claims to ‘contact’ matters and international child abduction cases.

In 2024 I won Family Lawyer of the Year (Partner) at the Citywealth Future Leaders Awards. Leading counsel described me as 'a bold tactician and litigator, unafraid of contentious and difficult legal issues or labyrinthine corporate and financial structures’ and clients referred to a ‘natural calm, wisdom and astute knowledge of human nature (that) makes Josh a most precious guide and ally.’

I am proud to be part of Fladgate’s top ranked Family Team: in 2025 Chambers and Partners awarded us ‘Family Team of the Year’ at their HNW awards, and ranked us as a ‘Tier 1’ Family Team for HNW divorce and financial remedies.

My clients or their spouses/partners may be entrepreneurs, celebrities, trustees, private equity partners, city professionals, bankers, venture capitalists and those in the art world (amongst many others.) They may also be homemaker or breadwinner, mother or father. What they all have in common is that I am passionate about protecting their interests and securing the very best deal for each and every one – and this is at the heart of everything I do. Many of my cases involve an international element or other complexity such as trust structures, offshore assets or dynastic estate planning (UK and abroad).

Outside of work, I am also a governor of my former school, Alleyn’s School, in South-East London.

Accolades

Listed by Spears Wealth Magazine as a ‘protégé’ of Baroness Fiona Shackleton, I was privileged to spend the first ten years of my practice learning from her and some of the country’s pre-eminent family lawyers, representing clients in a number of leading cases that made case law. I have been able to bring that wealth of experience to Fladgate’s incredible Private Wealth offering, giving clients the wrap around service they deserve.

  • In 2025 Chambers and Partners ranked me as a Tier 2 HNW family lawyer – the only family lawyer under the age of 40 in this category to achieve this. The guide quotes: “Joshua really finds new angles. There is no stone left unturned in a case with him.”, “Joshua Moger is a top next-generation partner. He is a super good technical lawyer. He's really good at the law.” and “Joshua Moger has great client care and he is a real litigator”.
  • I am part of the Fladgate Family Team which won Family Team of the Year at the 2025 Chambers and Partners HNW awards. The Family Team was also ranked by Chambers and Partners as ‘Tier 1’ for HNW divorce and financial remedies.
  • I was awarded Family Lawyer of the Year (Partner) in the 2024 Citywealth Future Leaders Awards.
  • I have been ranked in the 2023 and 2024 Legal 500 guides as a ‘Next Generation Partner’.
  • The Spears 500 Family Lawyer index has ranked me as a ‘recommended’ lawyer in the 2023, 2024 and 2025 Spears 500 guide.

Practice Areas

  • Complex divorce proceedings, financial remedies arising from divorce and claims for financial provision for unmarried parents or cohabitees (whether under Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989 or the Trustees of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996).
  • Private children’s law matters, including Child Arrangements Orders (with whom the child is to live or spend time with, formerly ‘residence’ and ‘contact’ Orders), internal or international relocation cases (‘leave to remove’) and child abduction. This includes applications to take a child on holiday, change a child’s school or change a child’s name.
  • Enforcement proceedings arising both out of financial remedy proceedings (unpaid sums of money under Judgment Summons, or failure to produce documents, as Contempt of Court) and failure to comply with Children Act Orders.
  • Pre-Nuptial, Mid-Nuptial and Post-Nuptial Agreements.
  • Personal protective orders, including obtaining (or setting aside) Non-Molestation Orders and Occupation Orders, and financial protective orders, including Freezing Injunctions.

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Experience

I have been involved in a number of reported cases that have shaped case law, including:

  • Versteegh v Versteegh [2018] EWCA Civ 1050. A seminal financial remedies case relating to pre-nuptial agreements, inherited/non-matrimonial/dynastic wealth and valuations of complex business structures worth c. £300m. The case was heard by both the High Court and the Court of Appeal.
  • TP v PRBP [2018] EWHC 2433 (Fam). A High Court financial remedies case, involving mental capacity, needs based awards and inherited/non-matrimonial/dynastic wealth.
  • AB v CD & C (No 1) [2019] EWHC 1695 (Fam). A High Court Children Act 1989 case, relating to a child’s paternity, and contact disputes arising from it.
  • AB v CD & C (No 2) [2019] EWHC 2244 (Fam). Continuing to act for the mother, responding to an (unsuccessful) application by the father to take the child abroad on holiday.
  • FRB v DCA (No 1) [2019] EWHC 2816 (Fam). A High Court financial remedies case in which the husband brought an (unsuccessful) claim for damages from the wife (our client) from her alleged deceit.
  • FRB v DCA (No 2) [2020] EWHC 754 (Fam). A High Court financial remedies case in which our client (the wife) was awarded £64m, some c. 2,000% more than that sought as an outcome by the husband.
  • FRB v DCA (No 3) [2020] EWHC 3696 (Fam) Continuation of the above High Court case in which the husband sought (unsuccessfully) to vary the final order relying on Covid-19 as an ‘unforeseeable’ event under the ‘Barder’ doctrine.
  • FRB v DCA (No 4) [2021] 4 WLR 32. Further hearing in the above.
  • Barclay v Barclay [2021] EWFC 40 A High Court financial remedies case involving complex offshore structures, with the wife (our client) awarded £100m.
  • Barclay v Barclay [2022] EWHC 2026 (Fam). A High Court enforcement application by way of Judgment Summons.
  • Barclay v Barclay [2023] EWHC 1179 (Fam). Final order in the above Judgment Summons application.
  • SW v IB [2023] EWFC 44. Important case on arbitrating Children Act 1989 cases, including the procedure for appealing the arbitration awards.
  • A v M (No. 2) [2024] EWFC 214. Ongoing proceedings in the leading private equity divorce case, A v M (No. 1), relating to the creation of a Continuation Fund, and the wife’s (our client) entitlement to Wells share in the husband’s carried interest and co-investments
  • A v M (No. 3) [2024] EWFC 299. Important decision on the husband’s unsuccessful application to strike out the wife’s (our client) application to set aside the court’s order in A v M (No.1) on the basis of the husband’s misleading disclosure.

Expertise

Family Law

Private Wealth Disputes

Contentious Trusts

Dispute Resolution

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