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Julie-Ann is a specialist family lawyer with more than 20 years’ experience advising individuals, business owners and families on complex relationship breakdowns. She is particularly recognised for her work involving significant assets, family businesses and financially complex disputes, combining legal expertise with commercial insight to help clients achieve practical, long-term outcomes.
Julie-Ann advises on a wide range of family law matters, including divorce, financial remedy proceedings, cohabitation disputes and wealth protection. She works with a diverse client base, including business owners, professionals, individuals connected to the marine sector and farming families. She has extensive experience navigating the legal, financial and personal challenges that arise when family issues intersect with business interests, inherited wealth and complex asset structures.
Known for her pragmatic and strategic approach, Julie-Ann provides clear, tailored advice that gives clients confidence during difficult periods of change. She works collaboratively with accountants, tax advisers and other professionals where required, ensuring clients receive comprehensive support and robust solutions aligned to their objectives.
- Complex divorce and financial remedy matters
- Business interests and family companies
- Third-party intervener claims
- Schedule 1 Children Act applications
- Farming families and landed estates
- Alternative dispute resolution, including mediation, arbitration and private FDRs
- International family law matters and offshore assets
- Pension-related financial claims
- Pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements
- Advising on complex financial settlements involving business interests, family companies and corporate restructuring, working alongside accountants, corporate lawyers and tax advisers to secure commercially effective outcomes.
- Preparing tailored pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements to support long-term wealth preservation and asset protection.
- Acting in complex cohabitation disputes and Schedule 1 Children Act claims involving financial provision for children.
- Advising farming families and landed estates on protecting generational wealth and family assets.
- Representing high-profile individuals, including business leaders, professional athletes and those with a public profile.
- Providing strategic advice in matters involving trusts, pensions, international assets and sophisticated financial arrangements.
- Resolution Accredited Specialist
- Member of the Resolution Specialist Accreditation Committee
Julie-Ann qualified as a solicitor in 2003 and has built a highly respected family law practice over more than two decades. Throughout her career, she has advised clients on some of the most complex and sensitive family disputes while also leading high-performing legal teams.
Having spent part of her early career at Lester Aldridge, Julie-Ann returned to the firm in 2026 as a Partner in the Family team.
Outside work, Julie-Ann enjoys exploring the New Forest with her two dogs and is a proud volunteer with the RNLI.
