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Victoria Hingston

Spear’s Review

‘I aim to steer clients through the choppiest of waters to a safe haven in a storm,’ Payne Hicks Beach partner Victoria Hingston says. ‘They find me a reassuring presence – empathetic, but objective when it matters most.’

Hingston works across a wide spectrum of family law issues, including cohabitation, pre- and postnuptial agreements, international children work and leave-to-remove applications.  She often takes on international clients whose assets are spread across different countries, ‘but then I’ll have other [occasions] where all of my clients’ assets are in the UK’, she says. 

‘The reason I like doing this job is because I like getting people through a very difficult time in their life. Fiona Shackleton always says that it’s divorce, not death – and she’s right. So you’ve got to wrap yourself around your client and steer them through.’

Read next: International prenuptial agreements: how to navigate cross-border PNAs  

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