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Caron Kipping, a renowned expert, private IDVA and divorce coach in the field of domestic abuse, joins Tamsin to shed light on a critical issue that affects many lives. Throughout their conversation, Caron shares her invaluable insights on the role of Independent Domestic Violence Advocates (IDVAs) and how they collaborate with various agencies to support high-risk survivors.

Caron Kipping

Caron Kipping is based in South Buckinghamshire – Author of ‘Recognition to Recovery – How to leave your abusive partner behind for good!’ she is a survivor of domestic abuse, has worked in the sector for 17 years and has her own busy practice as one of the leading Divorce Coaches in the UK. Caron offers practical help and guidance to clients who are separating from abusive and controlling partners – guiding them through the legal process and way beyond.

https://caronkippingcoaching.com/

Tamsin Caine

Tamsin is a Chartered Financial Planner with over 20 years experience. She works with couples and individuals who are at the end of a relationship and want agree how to divide their assets FAIRLY without a fight.

You can contact Tamsin at [email protected] or arrange a free initial meeting using https://bit.ly/SmDiv15min. She is also part of the team running Facebook group Separation, Divorce and Dissolution UK

Tamsin Caine MSc., FPFS

Chartered Financial Planner

Smart Divorce Ltd

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P.S. I am the co-author of “My Divorce Handbook – It’s What You Do Next That Counts”, written by divorce specialists and lawyers writing about their area of expertise to help walk you through the divorce process. You can buy it here https://yourdivorcehandbook.co.uk/buy-the-book/

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Unlock the secrets to navigating the often complex and challenging terrain of divorce with insights from our esteemed guest, Ceri Griffiths, a divorce financial planner. Discover how power imbalances, especially when one partner possesses greater financial knowledge or negotiation skills, can create significant disadvantages during divorce. Ceri provides invaluable tips on recognizing these imbalances and offers strategies to equip both parties with the tools needed to make informed decisions. Our discussion underscores the urgent need for legal systems to evolve and address economic abuse and coercive control, with a sneak peek into an upcoming report by Resolution.

Ceri Griffiths

What I Stand For
It's my intention to help divorcing women know how to use their financial settlement to create financial well-being and a more rewarding life.  I am passionate about this because I believe that financial services has historically been male focused and has marginalised so many women by focusing on growth and products.  This means they often feel vulnerable and unprepared at a time when they have to make some of the biggest financial decisions of their lives.  I feel it is vital that we level the playing field for women and ensure they have as equal access to expertise as their ex, and that financial services speaks to them in a way that is equally inspiring and motivational.  I am on a mission to empower women to become financial capable and to realise that money self-care is the ultimate self-care. They can make their money work for them and achieve peace of mind and a financial plan for a post-divorce life they will love.

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Tamsin Caine

Tamsin is a Chartered Financial Planner with over 20 years experience. She works with couples and individuals who are at the end of a relationship and want agree how to divide their assets FAIRLY without a fight.

You can contact Tamsin at [email protected] or arrange a free initial meeting using https://bit.ly/SmDiv15min. She is also part of the team running Facebook group Separation, Divorce and Dissolution UK

Tamsin Caine MSc., FPFS

Chartered Financial Planner

Smart Divorce Ltd

Smart Divorce

P.S. I am the co-author of “My Divorce Handbook – It’s What You Do Next That Counts”, written by divorce specialists and lawyers writing about their area of expertise to help walk you through the divorce process. You can buy it here https://yourdivorcehandbook.co.uk/buy-the-book/

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Olivia Piercy

Olivia is a solicitor specialising in all aspects of family law and a Partner at Hunters Law LLP. She provides holistic family law advice on both the child and finance aspects of family breakdown for married and cohabiting couples. She has particular expertise in cases with complex children law issues including child abduction and child protection.

Olivia’s passion lies in domestic abuse protection and she is an activist and campaigner in that field. She previously worked at domestic abuse charity Rights of Women and has a Master’s degree in Human Rights focusing on gendered violence. She sits on Resolution’s Domestic Abuse Committee and is co-Chair of Resolution’s Working Party on Economic Abuse.  Olivia is recognised for her expertise in domestic abuse and her understanding of the dynamics of coercive control.

She is ranked as a Next Generation Partner by The Legal 500 and has been praised for being “clever, focused and tenacious and completely dedicated to each client’s case". 

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Tamsin Caine

Tamsin is a Chartered Financial Planner with over 20 years experience. She works with couples and individuals who are at the end of a relationship and want agree how to divide their assets FAIRLY without a fight.

You can contact Tamsin at [email protected] or arrange a free initial meeting using https://bit.ly/SmDiv15min. She is also part of the team running Facebook group Separation, Divorce and Dissolution UK

Tamsin Caine MSc., FPFS

Chartered Financial Planner

Smart Divorce Ltd

Smart Divorce

P.S. I am the co-author of “My Divorce Handbook – It’s What You Do Next That Counts”, written by divorce specialists and lawyers writing about their area of expertise to help walk you through the divorce process. You can buy it here https://yourdivorcehandbook.co.uk/buy-the-book/

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TRIGGER WARNING. In the first episode, I speak to Rachel, who is currently navigating divorce from a partner who was abusive and continues to be so post separation. This is an incredibly brave conversation. We’re so grateful to be able to share Rachel’s story.

Tamsin Caine

Tamsin is a Chartered Financial Planner with over 20 years experience. She works with couples and individuals who are at the end of a relationship and want agree how to divide their assets FAIRLY without a fight.

You can contact Tamsin at [email protected] or arrange a free initial meeting using https://bit.ly/SmDiv15min. She is also part of the team running Facebook group Separation, Divorce and Dissolution UK

Tamsin Caine MSc., FPFS
Chartered Financial Planner
Smart Divorce Ltd

P.S. I am the co-author of “My Divorce Handbook – It’s What You Do Next That Counts”, written by divorce specialists and lawyers writing about their area of expertise to help walk you through the divorce process. You can buy it here https://yourdivorcehandbook.co.uk/buy-the-book/

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Unlock the secrets to fair pension sharing in divorce with expert Richard Nobbs! Learn how to simplify the process with the new PAG 2 report. Don't miss this essential episode! 

Richard Nobbs

Richard is an actuary and the owner and a director of Excalibur Actuaries Limited, one of the leading pensions on divorce expert firms, with a team of over 20 including 6 actuaries. He is a member of the Pensions Advisory Group – colloquially known as PAG, comprising judges, barristers, solicitors and pension experts and who have provided extensive guidance on how to deal with pensions on divorce. He is chair of the PAG valuation working committee.

Richard is also a member of the Academy of Experts and Expert Witness Institute.

On a lighter note, he is married with two daughters and in his spare time Richard is an expert skier and an enthusiastic, if less accomplished golfer and photographer.

www.excaliburactuaries.co.uk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouEnvDmo7U4

https://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/sites/default/files/files/Guide_To_The_Treatment_of_Pensions_on_Divorce-Digital(1).pdf

https://www.advicenow.org.uk/guides/survival-guide-pensions-divorce

Tamsin Caine

Tamsin is a Chartered Financial Planner with over 20 years experience. She works with couples and individuals who are at the end of a relationship and want agree how to divide their assets FAIRLY without a fight.

You can contact Tamsin at [email protected] or arrange a free initial meeting using https://bit.ly/SmDiv15min. She is also part of the team running Facebook group Separation, Divorce and Dissolution UK

Tamsin Caine MSc., FPFS

Chartered Financial Planner

Smart Divorce Ltd

Smart Divorce

P.S. I am the co-author of “My Divorce Handbook – It’s What You Do Next That Counts”, written by divorce specialists and lawyers writing about their area of expertise to help walk you through the divorce process. You can buy it here https://yourdivorcehandbook.co.uk/buy-the-book/

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Tamsin Caine is joined by Nicola Bright on our latest podcast episode - they dive into the complexities of divorce involving special needs and disabilities. They discuss child and financial arrangements in these challenging circumstances.

Nichola Bright

Nichola has been practising family law since 2008 and has worked at highly regarded practices in Cheshire and Lancashire. Nichola joined Myerson in 2012 and is now a Partner at the firm.

Nichola advises on a wide range of family matters, including divorce and high net-worth financial settlements, separation, co-habitation, pre-nuptial agreements, complex disputes regarding children, fertility law and surrogacy law.

Nichola is a committed member of Resolution and has achieved specialist accreditation in complex financial remedies and private children law.

Nichola has been named within the Legal 500 as a ‘Rising Star’ for several years. She has been described as ‘always very well prepared’ and has ‘good attention to detail whilst not losing sight of the bigger picture. She gives robust advice but always maintains good relationships with her clients.'

https://www.myerson.co.uk/personal/family-law/divorce-solicitors

Tamsin Caine

Tamsin is a Chartered Financial Planner with over 20 years experience. She works with couples and individuals who are at the end of a relationship and want agree how to divide their assets FAIRLY without a fight.

You can contact Tamsin at [email protected] or arrange a free initial meeting using https://bit.ly/SmDiv15min. She is also part of the team running Facebook group Separation, Divorce and Dissolution UK

Tamsin Caine MSc., FPFS
Chartered Financial Planner
Smart Divorce Ltd
https://smartdivorce.co.uk

P.S. I am the co-author of “My Divorce Handbook – It’s What You Do Next That Counts”, written by divorce specialists and lawyers writing about their area of expertise to help walk you through the divorce process. You can buy it here https://yourdivorcehandbook.co.uk/buy-the-book/

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Tamsin is joined by Catherine & Andy Morgan as they discuss how to turn divorce challenges into a supportive co-parenting partnership and how to create a stable, loving environment for their kids.

Tamsin Caine

Tamsin is a Chartered Financial Planner with over 20 years experience. She works with couples and individuals who are at the end of a relationship and want agree how to divide their assets FAIRLY without a fight.

You can contact Tamsin at [email protected] or arrange a free initial meeting using https://bit.ly/SmDiv15min. She is also part of the team running Facebook group Separation, Divorce and Dissolution UK

Tamsin Caine MSc., FPFS
Chartered Financial Planner
Smart Divorce Ltd
https://smartdivorce.co.uk

P.S. I am the co-author of “My Divorce Handbook – It’s What You Do Next That Counts”, written by divorce specialists and lawyers writing about their area of expertise to help walk you through the divorce process. You can buy it here https://yourdivorcehandbook.co.uk/buy-the-book/

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Graeme Fraser

Graeme is Head of Family at William Sturges and has specialised in family law for over 25 years. He has considerable experience in advising on financial settlements involving complex assets and substantial wealth. His practice covers divorce, financial settlements involving complicated assets and substantial wealth, children issues, marital agreements, cohabitation, intervenors, insolvency-related settlements, European Family law, relationship breakdowns, tax rules on divorce, use of experts, corporate and family law strategic advice and multi-ethnic law.

Graeme is well-known in the legal community through thought leadership, committee work, training Members, and being a media spokesman for the BBC, SKY, FT, and Times. He has spearheaded the campaign for cohabitation law reform in England and Wales. As Chair of Resolution’s Cohabitation Committee, he has been able to influence practice and policy that positively impacts his peers and improves outcomes for separating families.

https://www.williamsturges.co.uk

Tamsin Caine

Tamsin is a Chartered Financial Planner with over 20 years experience. She works with couples and individuals who are at the end of a relationship and want agree how to divide their assets FAIRLY without a fight.

You can contact Tamsin at [email protected] or arrange a free initial meeting using https://bit.ly/SmDiv15min. She is also part of the team running Facebook group Separation, Divorce and Dissolution UK

Tamsin Caine MSc., FPFS
Chartered Financial Planner
Smart Divorce Ltd
https://smartdivorce.co.uk

P.S. I am the co-author of “My Divorce Handbook – It’s What You Do Next That Counts”, written by divorce specialists and lawyers writing about their area of expertise to help walk you through the divorce process. You can buy it here https://yourdivorcehandbook.co.uk/buy-the-book/

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In this episode, Tamsin is joined by Elaine Richardson, who is a family lawyer and mediator, to talk about her work and what she gets up to when she’s not with clients.

Elaine Richardson

"I am a family law solicitor, collaborative lawyer and accredited child inclusive Hybrid mediator.  I supervise other mediators as their Professional Practice Consultant (PPC) and I supervise family lawyers as their Family Law Supervisor.  

I am a trainer and presenter specialising in domestic abuse, safeguarding, trauma and high conflict.  I run my own business called Richardson Family Law.    I am a member of the national non-court dispute resolution committee for Resolution.  I’ve been a member of Resolution for over 25 years.  Resolution is a community of family justice professionals who work with families and individuals to resolve issues in a constructive way.  We have a membership of about 6,500.  I was recognised nationally as the winner of the prestigious John Cornwell Award in 2019 by Resolution.    

I have been trained by the High Conflict Institute of America to conduct mediations involving high conflict and I have also been trained by the HCI as a mediation coach to prepare and support people going into the mediation process (NCDR?).  I work for the charity shared parenting Scotland in this role.      I am a trauma informed and skilled lawyer trained by The Scottish Law Society."

https://richardsonfamilylaw.co.uk/

Tamsin Caine

Tamsin is a Chartered Financial Planner with over 20 years experience. She works with couples and individuals who are at the end of a relationship and want agree how to divide their assets FAIRLY without a fight.

You can contact Tamsin at [email protected] or arrange a free initial meeting using https://bit.ly/SmDiv15min. She is also part of the team running Facebook group Separation, Divorce and Dissolution UK

Tamsin Caine MSc., FPFS
Chartered Financial Planner
Smart Divorce Ltd
https://smartdivorce.co.uk

P.S. I am the co-author of “My Divorce Handbook – It’s What You Do Next That Counts”, written by divorce specialists and lawyers writing about their area of expertise to help walk you through the divorce process. You can buy it here https://yourdivorcehandbook.co.uk/buy-the-book/

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Laura Rosefield
Laura says: "I always try to make sure that my clients can see the glimmer of promise at what the future holds. They know I will be by their side to help them put the building blocks in place to get there and at any time after the legal process is over. I will make sure that they have access to any specialist help they need. From my own experience, clients can see that there is light at the end of the darkness.”

Member of Resolution - an organisation of professionals who believe in a constructive, non-confrontational approach to family law matters.

Member of the Resolution Standards Committee and Working Together Group.

Member of the Family Ambassadors Board of Support Through Court - a charity which provides assistance to people going through the family and civil courts without representation.

Rosefield Divorce Consultancy is a member of Kids in the Middle – a charity comprised of family lawyers and mediators which aims to provide a voice for children when families split and an on-line resource for children to receive advice and support.

https://www.rosefielddivorceconsultancy.com


Tamsin Caine

Tamsin is a Chartered Financial Planner with over 20 years experience. She works with couples and individuals who are at the end of a relationship and want agree how to divide their assets FAIRLY without a fight.

You can contact Tamsin at [email protected] or arrange a free initial meeting using https://bit.ly/SmDiv15min. She is also part of the team running Facebook group Separation, Divorce and Dissolution UK

Tamsin Caine MSc., FPFS
Chartered Financial Planner
Smart Divorce Ltd
https://smartdivorce.co.uk

P.S. I am the co-author of “My Divorce Handbook – It’s What You Do Next That Counts”, written by divorce specialists and lawyers writing about their area of expertise to help walk you through the divorce process. You can buy it here https://yourdivorcehandbook.co.uk/buy-the-book/

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