Jayne Turner

Partner

Biography

Jayne is a partner in the family team with nearly 30 years’ experience in divorce and financial settlements, specialising in complex and high net worth cases involving businesses, investment portfolios and large pension funds. Jayne has developed a niche in farming divorces, and as a small holder on the edge of Dartmoor, her own personal experience enables her to understand the intertwining nature of home and work life on a farm and the pressures that farmers face.

Jayne is a Resolution accredited specialist in complex financial remedies and pensions on divorce, and is particularly experienced at dealing with public sector and high value pension funds. Due to her experience in complex asset cases, Jayne is also a member of the Law Society’s Advanced Accreditation scheme.

Jayne is a keen and active Resolution-trained collaborative family lawyer and member of the Somerset Collaborative Law POD.

In addition to the above, Jayne regularly contributes articles for South West Farmer, and she has appeared on national radio to talk about divorce.

Relevant experience

  • Private farming client: Representing a farmer with a multi-million-pound farming enterprise to include development options potentially worth an 8-figure sum, ensuring the retention of the farm on payment of a lump sum to the wife.
  • Private farming client: Acting for a farmer with complex partnership arrangements with other family members, again ensuring the retention of the farm on payment of the lump sum to the wife.
  • Private client: Representing a wife through financial remedy proceedings with assets valued in the region of £17 million including company interests. Securing 45% of the assets for the wife even though the husband’s business interests were in existence prior to the marriage.
  • Private client: Acting for the wife in financial remedy proceedings where the husband was a CEO of a national company with a remuneration package of £2 million per annum. Securing successful outcome for the wife.
  • Private client: Acting for a husband with a private limited company turning over several million and securing a financial clean break.

Awards and Accreditations

Legal 500 2025 Recommended Lawyer
Jayne Turner Chambers Badge 2025

Sign up for legal insights

We produce a range of insights and publications to help keep our clients up-to-date with legal and sector developments.  

Sign up