Lorraine has over 25 years’ experience specialising in family law, handling middle to high-net-worth value cases, including pension claims, complex trust and pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements. She advises on unmarried property disputes and cohabitation agreements, as well as private children cases often involving relocation, contact arrangements, and parental alienation.
Lorraine additionally advises both parties of a separating couple on how to approach their divorce together with the support and legal advice of one lawyer.
With her expertise of public sector pensions, in particular police pensions, NHS workers and AFPS, she has gained a breadth of experience advising clients on pension claims.
Her client base also includes professional sportsmen and women, entrepreneurs and CEOs and when cases have a business element, whether that’s a family business or shareholding, she works closely with an accountant to value the business, looking at various options for the parties to consider on settlement.
Lorraine Harvey was my solicitor with her previous employer. Lorraine has been excellent and helped resolve my divorce and settlement. I would highly recommend Lorraine to anyone in need of family law advice and divorce. Thank you Lorraine.
Sarah Lou
I highly recommend this firm. Very efficient service. Lorraine was very responsive with communication. Even on weekends. Having a good service made an otherwise difficult situation easier to go through. And I got a very good outcome for my case.
Marcus Afriyie Pepra-Ameyaw
Lorraine is a true professional, she explained in detail the whole process and understood my personal needs, taking time out of her busy day to listen.
John K.
Supportive, reassuring and provided excellent service.
Mrs C.H
A very loyal, trustworthy individual combined with a genuine personality. She shows great commitment, dedication to her profession and is an asset to any company that is lucky enough to hire her!
Ms L.F
Expertise
- Pension claims
- Complex trusts
- Prenuptial and postnuptial agreements
- Unmarried property disputes
- Cohabitation agreements
- Family business
- Shareholding
Experience
General Family
- Litigated and represented a wife with an expat husband living in Dubai to secure maintenance pending suit and overall financial settlement.
- Litigated and represented a husband who was terminally ill and sought to expedite his financial settlement claim against his wife who had various business interests.
- Advised on a pre-nuptial agreement with assets spread over three jurisdictions.
- Advised on a pre-nuptial agreement where the client’s income was in excess of £1 million.
- Advised a ‘silver splitter’ on a settlement proposal where both parties were in retirement.
- Advised both the husband and wife, enabling them to approach their divorce together and reach an agreement without involving two lawyers.
Children
- Successfully appealed a final order and gained a more favourable order at retrial for grandparents who sought a child arrangement order with their granddaughter against a hostile and opposed mother.
- Represented a mother who wished to relocate to NZ with her daughter, resulting in a specific issue application granted.
- Litigated and represented a father who was refused contact with son.
- Represented a mother where the father has been diagnosed with a serious health issue which resulted in contact with him being supervised.
- Represented a mother who was alleged of serious abuse at trial and fact-finding hearing.
Pensions
- Worked alongside pension actuaries where parties had a mix of defined benefit pensions and defined contribution pensions.
- Worked alongside an account to maximise tax-efficiency for a husband who lived outside of the UK but had various SIPPs in the UK which needed to be shared.
- Advised a wife where the husband had overseas pensions (US).
- Advised a husband who had an NHS pension value in excess of £2 million.
- Advised several teachers who had teacher pensions but were experiencing delays in obtaining valuations due to the embargo on valuations being made available and a serious backlog in requests for valuations which had been detrimental to the progress of their divorce.
High-Net Worth
- Represented a mother in a Schedule 1 case who sought a lump sum to rehouse herself and child from the HNW father.
- Represented a mother in a Schedule 1 case, where the father was owner of several businesses. Parents had shared care for the child and secured a property for the mother to be held on trust together with a school fee order.
- Advised a fiancé who was earning over £1 million and sought advice about terms of a prenup agreement and protected his inherited wealth of over £10 million.
Please note: The experience list above may include examples of work completed prior to joining Keystone Law.
Recognition
Member of Resolution
Career
Lorraine qualified as a solicitor in 1998. Prior to joining Keystone Law in 2025, she worked at the following firms:
- Simpson Millar
- Slater & Gordan
- Gorvins Solicitor