Joe Vaitilingam

Practice Areas

Over 25+ years working as a family lawyer, Joe has gained a reputation for being an astute and intelligent negotiator as well as a highly effective and skilful litigator. With immense experience in all fields of family law, he has built up a diverse clientele from all walks of life.

With particular expertise in negotiating and litigating complex financial disputes and cases concerning children, he is an expert on the relationship between trusts and family law and the preparation of pre-nuptial agreements. Joe’s extensive experience allows him to deal with multi-jurisdictional cases, where families, assets and pre-existing legal agreements are based globally.

Career

Joe qualified as a solicitor at Bates, Wells, and Braithwaite in 1996 after studying Politics and Economics at Oxford and was previously a partner at Hughes Fowler Carruthers before co-founding Vaitilingam Kay with Anne Kay

Professional Memberships

He is a Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers, a member of Resolution, and a collaborative lawyer and mediator.

Work Highlights

Joe achieved a swift and favourable financial settlement for the wife of a leading London lawyer following a series of roundtable meetings with the husband and his lawyers.

Joe obtained one of the largest known financial awards for housing and maintenance for a child of unmarried parents, advising a mother who sought financial support for her child from the father who lives in the USA.

Joe secured an urgent interim Hemain injunction in the High Court in highly contested proceedings which prevented the husband from pursuing litigation in Russia.

Joe acted for the successful husband in the reported case of M v W [2014] EWHC 925. The wife had applied to the English court for further financial provision from her former husband after they had divorced in New Zealand. Joe successfully applied to the court for the dismissal of the wife’s claim.