IMD has welcomed Marjha Golding-Evans as a Partner in its Family Law team, bringing almost two decades of specialist family law experience together with a substantial background in law firm leadership.
Marjha joins IMD with particular expertise in complex and high-net-worth financial matters involving businesses, trusts, inherited wealth, farming families, agricultural assets and landed estates. Her experience also encompasses wealth protection, technically complex jurisdictional disputes and cases involving sophisticated financial arrangements.
Her appointment brings more than specialist legal expertise to IMD. Marjha has previously held significant law firm leadership responsibilities, contributes to the rural community through her involvement with the Country Land and Business Association, and has been active in professional education, writing, speaking and family law reform.
Almost two decades dedicated to family law
Marjha began her family law career in London in 2005 before developing her practice across Wales and the South West.
Over almost 20 years, she has built extensive experience in complex financial remedy proceedings involving family and owner-managed businesses, trusts, pensions, inherited wealth, substantial property portfolios, farming partnerships, agricultural assets and landed estates.
She also advises on wealth protection, including pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements and cohabitation arrangements.
Cases involving significant wealth rarely turn on a single legal issue. Businesses may need to be valued, trusts and inherited assets analysed and complex ownership structures understood. Marjha regularly works alongside accountants, business valuation experts, financial advisers, land agents and other specialist professionals where their input can help develop an effective solution.
Her experience also extends to complex jurisdictional disputes. Marjha acted in the reported case of A v B [2025] EWFC 377 (B), concerning a contested jurisdiction issue. Her work on substantial financial cases has reinforced the importance of detailed analysis and careful scrutiny of financial disclosure.
Farming families, landed estates and rural wealth
One of the most distinctive areas of Marjha’s practice is her work with farming families, landowners and those whose wealth is closely connected with rural businesses and landed estates.
Divorce and relationship breakdown in this context can create issues considerably wider than the division of conventional assets. A farm may simultaneously be a family home, an operating business, inherited wealth, a source of income and something a family hopes to preserve for the next generation.
Ownership structures can also be complex, involving partnerships, companies, trusts, tenancies and interests held by different generations of the same family.
The consequences of a family dispute can therefore affect much more than the separating couple. Business continuity, employees, succession planning, taxation, other family members and the future viability of a farm or estate may all need to be considered.
Marjha’s approach is consequently to understand not simply what an asset is worth, but how it functions and what it means to the people involved. Where possible, the objective is to identify a fair financial outcome while also considering the longer-term sustainability of the underlying business or estate.
A family law perspective within the rural community
Marjha’s interest in rural issues extends beyond her individual client work.
She serves on the Country Land and Business Association’s South Wales Committee and its Legal, Parliamentary and Property Rights Committee. Her involvement enables her to bring a family law perspective to wider discussions affecting landowners, farming families and rural businesses, while remaining closely connected to the practical issues faced by those operating agricultural businesses and managing wealth across generations.
That perspective can be particularly valuable in family law. A solution that appears technically straightforward may be ineffective if it does not recognise how a farm, family business or estate actually operates.
Recognition for complex family and rural wealth work
Marjha’s expertise has been independently recognised by The Legal 500, where she has been ranked as a Next Generation Partner and described as “a thoughtful, caring and highly skilled advocate”.
The directory has also highlighted her work in complex matrimonial finance involving significant farming assets and landed estates.
For Marjha, however, technical expertise is only part of effective family law advice. Clients are often making significant financial and personal decisions at one of the most difficult points in their lives. Her approach combines careful analysis with empathy, clear advice and an understanding of what the client ultimately needs to achieve.
Leadership alongside legal practice
Before joining IMD, Marjha was Managing Partner for the South West and Wales at Stowe Family Law. Alongside maintaining a complex personal caseload, she led a substantial regional team across multiple offices, with responsibilities encompassing strategy, budgeting, recruitment, colleague development and performance.
Earlier in her career, Marjha established and led the Family Law department at RDP Law, with the team subsequently nominated for Family Team of the Year at the Wales Legal Awards 2022.
These experiences have given her a perspective on the legal profession that extends beyond individual cases. Building teams, developing lawyers and leading through growth and organisational change have reinforced her view that demanding professional standards and a positive working culture should support one another.
Contributing to the wider development of family law
Marjha has also contributed extensively beyond her individual practice.
She has produced specialist legal material for LexisNexis and Jordan Publishing, including practice notes, precedents, legal updates and procedural guidance. She has delivered professional training and webinars and has guest lectured on family law at the University of the West of England.
Her interest in family law reform has included longstanding involvement with Resolution and support for the introduction of no-fault divorce. She has also participated in discussions at the House of Lords concerning reform of financial provision law.
Marjha’s rural expertise has informed her wider commentary too, including writing for Farmers Weekly about the particular issues facing farming families during divorce, such as agricultural businesses, inherited land, succession and preserving multi-generational farming enterprises.
Looking beyond the immediate dispute
After almost two decades in family law, one principle has remained central to Marjha’s approach: understanding what the client actually wants life to look like when the case is over.
Complex proceedings can easily become dominated by disclosure, valuations, correspondence and legal arguments. Those things matter, but they are ultimately tools for resolving a much wider personal and financial problem.
For a business owner, preserving the company they have spent years building may matter more than maximising one element of a financial claim. For a farming family, preserving a viable farm for another generation may be central to any workable settlement. For other clients, certainty, privacy or avoiding unnecessary conflict may be critical.
Marjha therefore places considerable emphasis on listening carefully, understanding the wider context and developing a strategy around the client’s actual objectives.
Where a negotiated solution can protect those interests, unnecessary conflict should be avoided. Where robust litigation is required, her experience of complex financial proceedings and detailed asset structures enables her to pursue the client’s position with clarity and purpose.
The next chapter at IMD
Marjha’s arrival at IMD brings together several strands of her career: complex family law, high-net-worth financial work, rural wealth, leadership, professional education and an understanding of circumstances that do not always fit neatly within conventional boundaries.
Her particular experience involving businesses, trusts, farms, estates and multi-generational wealth complements IMD’s wider work supporting individuals and families whose personal, financial and international circumstances often overlap.
At IMD, she will continue advising clients on complex family and financial matters while also bringing her wider leadership experience to the continued development of the Family Law team and the firm.