Divorce Café

A podcast that demystifies, detangles and (hopefully) detoxes the legal process that follows a separation or divorce with the experts in the relationship property area. Lawyers and friends Taina Henderson and Shelley Funnell have tapped into their network and bring you smart and funny interviews with top lawyers and experts about their biggest cases, the law, and what you need to know to get through a separation in NZ.

Contributors

Host

Shelley Funnell

Shelley is based in our Auckland office. She graduated from Victoria University in Wellington in 1997 with a first class honours degree in law and a commerce degree.

She has worked in the commercial and banking departments of a top Auckland law firm, and for several years in investment banks in London and an international bank in Auckland.

Shelley is a founding member of our Auckland team, and works primarily in property, commercial property and business purchases. She specialises in complicated commercial banking transactions for small-medium businesses and also enjoys trusts and estate planning.

Shelley became a Director of the firm in 2021.

https://hendersonreeveslawyers.co.nz/profile/shelley-funnell/

Host

Taina Henderson

Taina is a founding member of our Auckland team, and works primarily in the Family and Relationship Property areas.

Taina works with people dividing their assets after a separation, and with people at the start of a relationship, creating contracting out agreements (or pre-nups). Her experience in the Family Courts specialises on relationship property proceedings and spousal maintenance. Taina also has broad ranging background in Family Protection (estate challenges), wills, property and commercial property.

https://hendersonreeveslawyers.co.nz/profile/taina-henderson/

Guests

Guest

Amanda Donovan

As a prominent Auckland family lawyer, Amanda’s clients value that she’s astute, commercially savvy and easy to relate to. With a background in psychology, she helps make difficult situations comfortable and drives dialogue when the going gets tough.

A strategic thinker with incredible spirit and vitality, Amanda has practised for over 25-years, working primarily in the highly specialised areas of relationship property disputes, and claims against trusts.

As a keen listener and insightful reader of people, Amanda is an expert negotiator. She is a mediator and member of the Arbitrators’ and Mediators’ Institute of New Zealand Inc (AIMNZ) acting as a private mediator with a compassionate yet robust approach to helping parties resolve relationship property, divorce and care of children matters, disputed Wills and contested estates.

https://haighlyon.co.nz/amanda-donovan

Guest

Gaye Greenwood

Experienced academic and mediator with a demonstrated history of working as a lecturer in the higher education industry. Skilled in research, mediation, teaching and learning involving; business, franchise, workplace, family, education, health, not for profit organizations, negotiation, conflict coaching, dispute resolution, conflict and dispute resolution.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gaye-greenwood-phd-3932452a/?originalSubdomain=nz