Lorraine Harvey

Lorraine advises clients on divorce and financial settlements and unmarried property disputes, including pre-nuptial agreements and complex multi-jurisdictional matters.

• Litigated and represented a wife with an expat husband living in Dubai to secure maintenance pending suit and overall financial settlement.
• Litigated and represented a husband who was terminally ill and sought to expedite his financial settlement claim against his wife who had various business interests.
• Advised on a pre-nuptial agreement with assets spread over three jurisdictions.
• Advised on a pre-nuptial agreement where the client’s income was in excess of £1 million.
• Advised a ‘silver splitter’ on a settlement proposal where both parties were in retirement.
• Advised both the husband and wife, enabling them to approach their divorce together and reach an agreement without involving two lawyers.

Lorraine advises on private children cases, often involving relocation, contact arrangements, and parental alienation.

• Successfully appealed a final order and gained a more favourable order at retrial for grandparents who sought a child arrangement order with their granddaughter against a hostile and opposed mother.
• Represented a mother who wished to relocate to NZ with her daughter, resulting in a specific issue application granted.
• Litigated and represented a father who was refused contact with son.
• Represented a mother where the father has been diagnosed with a serious health issue which resulted in contact with him being supervised.
• Represented a mother who was alleged of serious abuse at trial and fact-finding hearing.

Lorraine advises married couples and high-net worth individuals on pension claims, including defined benefit and defined contribution pensions, and resolving valuation delays affecting divorce settlements, often working alongside pension actuaries to protect clients’ financial interests.

• Worked alongside pension actuaries where parties had a mix of defined benefit pensions and defined contribution pensions.
• Advised several teachers who had teacher pensions but were experiencing delays in obtaining valuations due to the embargo on valuations being made available and a serious backlog in requests for valuations which had been detrimental to the progress of their divorce.
• Advised a husband who had an NHS pension value in excess of £2 million.
• Advised a wife where the husband had overseas pensions (US).
• Worked alongside an account to maximise tax-efficiency for a husband who lived outside of the UK but had various SIPPs in the UK which needed to be shared.

Lorraine advises high-net-worth clients on family and financial matters, including Schedule 1 cases, pre- and post-nuptial agreements, pensions, and overseas assets, maximising protection and tax-efficiency for complex wealth structures.

• Represented a mother in a Schedule 1 case who sought a lump sum to rehouse herself and child from the HNW father.
• Represented a mother in a Schedule 1 case, where the father was owner of several businesses. Parents had shared care for the child and secured a property for the mother to be held on trust together with a school fee order.
• Advised a fiancé who was earning over £1 million and sought advice about terms of a prenuptial agreement and protected his inherited wealth of over £10 million.
• Worked alongside an accountant to maximise tax-efficiency for a husband who lived outside of the UK but had various SIPPs in the UK which needed to be shared.
• Advised a wife where the husband had overseas pensions (US).
• Advised a husband who had an NHS pension value in excess of £2 million.

Lorraine advises clients in the healthcare sector on divorce and children matters, including Schedule 1 cases, pre- and post-nuptial agreements, financial division, and pensions.

• Advised a husband who had an NHS pension value in excess of £2 million.
• Acted for a senior NHS consultant with private income streams in a divorce involving pension valuation disputes, property portfolios, and dependent children.
• Negotiated child contact terms around on-call and rota obligations for an A&E doctor during a separation.

Lorraine advises professional sportsmen and women in the sports sector on divorce and children matters, including Schedule 1 cases, pre- and post-nuptial agreements, financial division, and pensions.

• Advised a current Premier League manager on divorce proceedings involving £10 million in assets, international property, and future income projections from club and media contracts.
• Lorraine represented a high-profile Premier League manager in a confidential, high-value divorce case involving international assets, image rights, and media considerations.
• Acted for sportspeople to secure favourable child arrangement orders and maintain privacy against aggressive tabloid interest.

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