Episode Show Notes
About this Episode:
This hour-long episode is packed with divorce solicitor insight about the (relatively) new no-fault divorce process, what newly separated people might need to think about and how lawyers’ pricing models are changing, hopefully for the better.
Our discussion with Georgina includes:
- How the divorce process has changed from fault based to no-fault.
- How to apply for a divorce (make sure you have your marriage certificate!) – breaking down the three stages.
- The benefit of using other non-lawyer professionals during separation - such as therapists, divorce coaches and consultants - to support the client’s emotional journey and work as a team.
- Why it is important not to get the final (divorce) order before you have a final agreement on finances.
- Understanding that divorce, finances on divorce and child arrangements are three distinct legal considerations.
- That you need to have a court approved order in your finances on divorce even if you agreed the outcome (see the toolkit for the Fair Shares report we discussed).
- The most common questions Georgina is asked when a client first instructs her. The most common being – “will I get to keep my home?”
- Her golden nuggets of advice for anyone getting divorced.
- Private FDRs - a private (non court) hearing aimed at settling finances on divorce.
- How point scoring is a thing of the past – think about the future when you’re communicating in the present.
- What changes she would like to see in our field (spoiler – cohabitation reform!)
- A new initiative called Assent. Georgina is a founding member of the Assent model. Assent offers a revolutionary system for keeping fees fixed, sticking to timetables and ensuring clients and professionals adopt a solution focussed mindset to get to an outcome on finances.
Links to resources discussed in the episode appear in the toolkit below.
About Georgina:
Georgina Hamblin has two young boys and lives with her husband in the Tunbridge Wells area of Kent.
She takes great pride in helping other families safeguard their own prosperity and happiness for the future, and is committed to shaping Hamblin Family Law around her own core values of integrity, respect and representing others how she would wish to be represented herself.
Georgina is ranked as a ‘Leading Partner’ in the Legal 500 (2025) with references stating that she “offers a sensitive and bespoke service” and “is phenomenal litigator, but equally confident in non-court dispute resolution”. She has also recently been shortlisted for International Citywealth Powerwomen’s “Entrepreneurial Woman of the Year 2025”.
Aside from her impressive legal career, Georgina is a cold-water swimmer and avid yoga enthusiast. She also enjoys sailing, long walks in nature, a country pub and plenty of time in the sun!
Before focusing on becoming a lawyer she was on the British Equestrian Dressage Team for many years and won a bronze medal at the European Championships.
What a woman!