Jacqueline Humphreys - Divorce & Financial Remedy

Jacqueline is a divorce and financial remedy specialist, with particular expertise in cases with high-value assets and/or complex issues.

She is highly ranked in Chambers UK and The Legal 500 guide and has an enviable reputation for being a fierce advocate with an incredible eye for detail and lateral thinking while keeping in mind the bigger picture.

Jacqueline is well respected by judges and professional colleagues. Unfazed by the emotional and psychological issues often experienced by people involved in family litigation she is able to reassure nervous clients and calm angry or aggressive ones to help each of them focus on the key issues needing to be addressed to achieve a good negotiated or litigated outcome.

Jacqueline is a Mediator in divorce and financial remedy cases.

Recent cases include:

• Acting for a wife where the husband is alleged to be colluding with his business partner to artificially deflate the value of a multi-million-pound company.
• Representing a husband where a vulnerable wife is failing to co-operate with implementing an order.
• Acting for a husband where the wife alleges that a property worth around £1.3m held in the name of the husband’s daughter is in fact beneficially owned by him.
• Advising an elderly husband beneficiary of an offshore discretionary trust who lost capacity during the currency of financial remedy proceedings.
• Acting for a wife seeking third party disclosure orders against multiple banks to prove dishonesty by husband and his father in respect of a property and a business, subsequently achieving a negotiated settlement and enforcing the final order against the unco-operative husband.
• Representing a husband convicted of serious sexual offences against a minor in a financial remedy case where his conduct was a live issue.