Seamus Kearney is a barrister specialising in the following areas of practice:

· Financial aspects of family and relationship breakdown

· Cohabitee disputes

· Claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975

· Contentious Probate

· Trusts

· Adult Welfare (property and affairs)

Seamus Kearney is licensed to undertake direct public access work.

Education

Graduated in law from Trinity College Dublin

Memberships

The Bar of Northern Ireland

Independent Panel for Special Education Advice

Family Law Bar Association

Publications

“Law and the Family – A Practical Guide” (1998) – a guide to Irish family law for non-lawyers (with Maureen Mullally)

Civil

• Adult Welfare
• Property and wills (chancery, trusts of land, family provision and probate)

Family

• Adoption
• Ancillary relief
• Child abduction
• Children (Private Law)
• Children (Public Law)
• Civil partnerships
• Divorce and nullity
• Domestic violence

Public

• Education & special educational needs