Jennifer Williamson
Partner
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Jennifer has great success helping people deal with changes in their families, whether advance planning to avoid uncertainty, or resolving problems following a relationship breakdown.
Main areas of practice
- Divorce or dissolve their civil partnership with dignity
- Understand the financial issues arising in all family-law circumstances (including unmarried separation, future planning – pre/post nuptial agreements, upon divorce/dissolution, after a lengthy separation)
- Put enforceable documentation in place to deal with current and future financial claims
- Resolve disagreements about children: who they should live or spend time with, where they should live (including whether here or abroad), specific issues about other matters such as education
- Choose the most suitable approach to resolve their matters: supporting mediation, solicitor negotiations, a collaborative approach, or court proceedings.
Clients
Jennifer assists individuals from a wide range of backgrounds. She is accomplished at representing professionals (including accountants, actuaries, city traders, doctors, teachers, surgeons to name a few), business people, sports people and homemakers.
Jennifer acts for clients living, and with assets, in the UK, and for international clients in the Channel Islands, and the rest of the world.
Expertise & Services
- Families
- Divorce & separation
- Arrangements for children, parents & grandparents
- Pre-nuptial & post-nuptial agreements
Jennifer is very professional and understanding, bringing real calm and perspective when moments have been heightened with emotion.
Career
Jennifer achieved a science degree BSc (Hons) at the University of Birmingham.
She qualified as a solicitor in 2009, since when her focus has been solely on family law. Jennifer practiced in leading niche family law practices, including leading the Winchester office of such a firm, before joining Blake Morgan in 2018.
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Accreditations
Memberships
- Resolution
Significant Experience
- Pre/post nuptial agreements: Jennifer has advised couples about the content of agreements and helped them put agreements in place which provide a high degree of certainty for the future.
- Complex remuneration packages, pensions and businesses.
- She is adept at dealing in matters where one, or both, people have complex remuneration packages with numerous pay/benefit/pension elements, as well as restricted stock units, shares, share options.
- Jennifer's work also frequently involves matters with significant pension provision, advising about how to best share/protect such. She has experience with a variety of schemes including Armed Forces pensions, Police pensions, NHS pensions, Teachers pensions, final salary and private schemes.
- Her cases often require her to advise about business interests, considering value and liquidity. Jennifer's experience includes sole traders, dental practices, restaurant chains, to complex inter-related companies with associated off-shore employee benefit trusts.
- Children: Jennifer has experience in difficult cases involving children, including achieving complete reversal of arrangements (change of with which parent the child lives).
- Her experience includes cases where the psychiatric assessment of either parent is required.
- Jennifer advises about relocation abroad.
- Difficult cases: Jennifer has significant experience in difficult cases involving narcissistic husbands or wives, via spending and gambling, or deliberately hidden assets.
Additional Expertise
Jennifer is a trained collaborative lawyer.
She is also an accredited specialist with Resolution (the country’s leading family law organisation) for her expertise in family law, financial and children, matters.
Jenny is a published author having written ‘A Practical Guide to Menopause and Family Law’, which you can find out more about on Law Brief Publishing here.
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Insights by Jennifer
Articles 2 June - Jennifer Williamson
When trusts go wrong in divorce: lessons learned from real case studies
Laura Richards and Jennifer Williamson unpack some common mistakes with trust assets in divorce and when trustees should…
Articles 14 May - Jennifer Williamson
How do I apply for a Child Arrangements Order?
Separating from your child’s parent can be emotionally difficult. If you have tried speaking between yourselves, perhaps mediation…
Articles 11 April - Charlotte Thompson
Co-parenting: How can I monitor my child’s screentime while they are away from home?
Regular screen usage is becoming increasingly commonplace among families, with statistics showing that 97% of children aged 12…
