Jacky Campbell is a founding partner of Forte Family Lawyers and has practised as a lawyer specialising in family law for more than 30 years. Jacky is recognised as a Leading Family Lawyer in Melbourne by Doyle’s Guide to the Australian Legal Market. Jacky is annually recognised as a Leading Family and Divorce Lawyer, a Leading Family Lawyer (High-Value & Complex Property Matters) and a Leading Parenting & Children’s Matters Lawyer.
Jacky has a Masters degree in Family Law having written her thesis on the relationship of family law and bankruptcy.
Jacky received the Law Institute of Victoria Rogers Legal Writing Award 2004 — for the article “Splitting the Super … and Selling the Home”.
Jacky is the consultant editor of Wolters Kluwer/CCH Australian Family Law and Practice and contributing author to Wolters Kluwer/CCH Australian Family Law and Practice to the Property, Spousal Maintenance, Financial Agreements, Maintenance Agreements, Procedure and Precedents tabs. She writes several chapters of the Wolters Kluwer/CCH Australian Master Family Law Guide, including the superannuation chapter and is the author of the family law chapters in the Wolters Kluwer/CCH Australian Master Superannuation Guide and the Wolters Kluwer Australian Family Law & Practice.
Jacky is a Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers and an Associate of the American Bar Association.