Jacky Campbell

Jacky Campbell is annually recognised as a leading family lawyer in Melbourne by Doyle’s Guide to the Australian Legal Market as well as one of Melbourne's leading family lawyers in High-value and Complex Property matters, a Leading Family and Divorce Lawyer, and a Leading Parenting & Children’s Matters Lawyer. She is also recognised as one of the Best Lawyers in Australia .

Jacky is a founding partner of Forte Family Lawyers and has been working in family law for over 40 years. She deals with complicated property and parenting matters and have a special interest in matters involving:

- complex and high-value property settlements

- bankruptcy, insolvency, liquidation and receivership

- complex superannuation interests such as defined benefit funds and self managed superannuation funds

- setting aside financial agreements

- where there is an international element such as overseas assets and international child abduction under the Hague Convention

- complex parenting matters

In 2025 Jacky received a Distinguished Service Award from the Law Institute of Victoria.

Jacky is the Consultant Editor of the major reference work for Australian family lawyers, Wolters Kluwer/CCH Australian Family Law and Practice and Contributing Author to Wolters Kluwer/CCH Australian Family Law and Practice to the chapters on:

- Property

- Superannuation

- Financial Agreements including pre-nuptial agreements

For the Wolters Kluwer/CCH Australian Master Family Law Guide, Jacky writes the following chapters:

- Financial agreements

- Superannuation

- Maintenance

- Preface

Jacky writes the Introduction to the Wolters Kluwer/CCH Australian Family Law Act 1975 with Regulations & Rules. She is also the author of the family law chapter in the Wolters Kluwer/CCH Australian Master Superannuation Guide.

Jacky regularly presents to lawyers and accountants, primarily for TEN The Education Network, CCH Learning, and the Leo Cussen Institute, usually regarding the financial aspects of family law such as financial agreements, superannuation and property.

Jacky has been a Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers since 2004, am a member of the Academy's Pension (AKA superannuation) Committee and an Associate Member of the American Bar Association.