Rebecca Calden-Storr

Finances

Rebecca is regularly instructed on all financial aspects of family law and relationship breakdown with cases including divorce, separation, cohabitation, variation and enforcement of financial orders, disputes over school fees and international issues. She advises clients both in Court proceedings and those in negotiations and mediation – often providing “behind the scenes” advice to those seeking to negotiate settlement directly. Rebecca regularly instructs forensic accountants to investigate complex financial affairs and provide independent business valuations to assist swift settlement.

Children

Rebecca also specialises in difficult child law cases and is regularly instructed where children have additional needs. Her case load often involves issues of parental alienation, coercive control, narcissism and allegations of psychological and physical abuse, and where parents cannot agree on issues such as:

• Contact and residence
• Internal and international relocation
• Child maintenance and Schedule 1 cases
• Education, religion and medical treatment
• Change of name

Due to the complexities of her cases, Rebecca frequently represents clients in proceedings involving multiple parties, fact-finding hearings and appeals. She works closely with barristers and KCs both in Birmingham and London and regularly instructs experts to provide blood, alcohol, drug and hair strand test reports, psychiatric assessments and independent social work reports.

She offers clients the benefit of her first class litigation background, yet is also a keen to move families forward using swift and cost-effective alternatives to the traditional Court route and all forms of NCDR eg arbitration, private FDRs, neutral evaluation and round table meetings.

Approach

Having been divorced with teenage children herself (and now happily navigating life as part of a blended family), Rebecca understands the difficulties faced by clients during family breakdown. She builds relationships with clients quickly, offering robust legal and practical advice in a cost-effective, constructive and compassionate way.

She is praised by clients for her responsiveness, hands on and down to earth approach. Her clients range from stay at home parents to professionals, business owners and high net worth individuals.

Training & employment

Rebecca studied Law at the University of Hull and obtained a Post Graduate Diploma in Law from the College of Law (Chester). Rebecca led the opening of the firm’s office in Birmingham in 2018, having practised law since 2002.  She originally trained and qualified as a commercial litigation solicitor with an international law firm. With a first-class grounding in business law, Court proceedings and alternative dispute resolution, Rebecca later re-trained as a family solicitor at a Top 40 national law firm. Rebecca is also Managing Partner at Stowe’s other West Midlands offices in Solihull, Leamington Spa and Lichfield. Rebecca is a recommended family solicitor in the Legal 500.

Rebecca is ranked as Band 4 in the Chambers and Partners 2025 guide.

Outside of work

Outside of work, Rebecca enjoys spending time with her family, the great outdoors and loves to travel.

Legal 500 recognition

Retaining its Tier 2 ranking, Stowe’s West Midlands team is headed up by the ‘hugely impressive’ Rebecca Calden-Storr, who provides a ‘caring and personal approach. Rebecca is a key lawyer in this year’s Legal 500, and is noted as being ‘extremely knowledgeable, conscientious and professional and at the same time helpful and caring.’ 

‘Rebecca Calden-Storr has excellent attention to detail.’ 

‘Rebecca Calden-Storr is hugely impressive; her manner inspires confidence and she delivers exceptional standards of service.’