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Joanne Raisbeck | Hill Dickinson

Joanne Raisbeck

Joanne is a Partner and head of the Family team. Her work focuses primarily on high-net-worth divorce, pre-nuptial/post-nuptial agreements, financial provision for children and disputes involving arrangements for children.
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Joanne is an experienced and well regarded family law solicitor. She has a real eye for detail and is well known for her outstanding case preparation. Prior to joining the firm in 2013, Joanne spent eight years at Pannone LLP and prior to that was at Nelsons LLP and Bell Lamb & Joynson.

Joanne has expertise in all aspects of family law, but she specialises in dealing with complex and high-net-worth financial matters on divorce and in preparing pre-nuptial/post-nuptial agreements. She regularly acts for ‘rich list’, media, sports, business and professional clients and often the cases she is involved in have family business issues, overseas assets or family trust arrangements.

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  • Experience

    • Representing the wife in a complex farming case
    • Successfully representing the husband in a case involving inherited wealth and the value of a property business
    • Obtaining a declaration of parentage which was fundamental to challenging a decision of the home office to deport a mother and child from the UK
    • Preparation of a pre-nuptial agreement intending to protect extensive family wealth, including assets held in trust
    • Representing a retired police officer with a substantial final salary police pension in payment. The case involved obtaining a single joint expert (SJE) pension report
    • Successfully representing a husband in divorce proceedings where the issues involved legal arguments over pre acquired assets
    • Topping -v-Topping [2008] EWCA Civ 1142
  • Affiliations

    • Member of the Law Society
    • Member of Resolution

Joanne Raisbeck's Expertise