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DMH Stallard LLP Offices

DMH Stallard LLP
1ST FLOOR, WONERSH HOUSE
THE GUILDWAY, OLD PORTSMOUTH ROAD
GUILDFORD
GU3 1LR
England
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Joanna Potbury

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01273 744211 joanna.potbury@dmhstallard.com View profile

Work Department

Family

Position

Joanna is a Senior Associate in the Family and Relationships team, based in Brighton.

Career

Joanna’s background is in commercial litigation, having trained with the firm and qualified into the Technology and Media Dispute Resolution team in 2007, before moving on to specialise in family law.  She is, therefore, uniquely qualified to bring a commercial and pragmatic approach to matrimonial financial cases which involve complex business and overseas assets.

Joanna advises clients on a wide range of private family matters including divorce, financial disputes and injunction proceedings.  She is regularly instructed to deal with complex and high net worth divorce cases involving trusts, businesses, high value property and assets located outside the UK.

In addition to financial cases, Joanna also has extensive experience in relation to private children law disputes (including applications under Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989 and leave to remove applications) and domestic violence (including applications for non-molestation orders and occupation orders).

Joanna has a wealth of experience advising on the protection of family wealth through pre-nuptial, post-nuptial and cohabitation agreements.

Joanna has built up a strong network in Brighton and the surrounding area.  This, combined with her particular skillset, has enabled the team to carve out a niche as a market leader for complex matrimonial cases in the region.

Work highlights

  • Advising on a highly contentious, and particularly complex, Schedule 1 Application involving a shareholder’s dispute and difficulties surrounding contact arrangements.
  • Issuing an urgent Schedule 1 Application to re-establish regular, unsupervised contact for a Mother and her three young children.
  • Securing a financial settlement on divorce where the parties are joint owners of seven properties as well as high value pensions.
  • Advising a client during a very acrimonious breakdown of a marriage. In particular, advising the client in relation to high value properties and companies in both the UK and USA.
  • Advising and securing financial settlement for a Wife in circumstances where the Husband was refusing to provide financial disclosure in respect of his very successful businesses.
  • Advising a party in proceedings relating to the joint ownership of a property; securing the sale of the property and division of the proceeds of sale in our client’s favour on the basis of Trust law.
  • Preparing a pre-nuptial agreement; ring-fencing our client’s various properties and pensions in the event of the parties’ divorce.
  • Advising and preparing a cohabitation agreement for a couple who do not intend to get married, but who wish to document their common intentions to protect their assets.

Languages

English

Memberships

  • Joanna is a member of Resolution, a national organisation of family lawyers committed to working with families and individuals to resolve issues in a non-confrontational and constructive way.

Lawyer Rankings

South East > Private client > Family: Kent, Surrey, Sussex

(Rising stars)

Joanna Potbury – DMH Stallard LLP

The large family team at DMH Stallard LLP, which recently merged with Sussex-based private client firm Griffith Smith LLP, offers ‘excellent attention to detail and client care’ to high-net-worth clients and business owners. Operating across offices in Horsham, Hassocks, Brighton, Gatwick and Guildford, the practice provides a range of family law advice and dispute resolution representation relating to cohabitation, children, same-sex relationship and international family law. Team leader and ‘expert’ in contentious divorces and financial proceedings Mark Rennie is ‘strategic, great to work with, client focused and reliable’. Philip Morton manages the team in Guildford and is sought out to assist with complex financial and international cases. In Horsham, Nigel Winter operates a free family law clinic and has a broad practice handling collaborative law and contested ancillary relief proceedings and cohabitation agreements. All issues trained mediator Samantha Jago carries out her own advocacy and offers ‘clear advice’ to parents, business owners and senior managers, while Joanna Potbury has significant experience in matrimonial finance cases.

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