Managing Cross-Border High-Net-Worth Family Disputes | Family Roundtable

This roundtable brought together family law practitioners from the United Arab Emirates, Ukraine and South Africa to examine the practical and legal challenges of high‑net‑worth, cross‑border family disputes. The discussion explored the early-stage steps taken when divorces involved business interests, offshore holdings or complex asset structures and how each jurisdiction's treatment of matrimonial property shaped financial strategy, assessed courts' approaches to child welfare, international relocation and custody conflicts, reviewed mechanisms for recognition and enforcement of foreign orders, and considered developments in law, technology and international cooperation affecting cross‑border practice.