Rebecca Christie

Rebecca has experience in all areas of family law, and has acted for a wide variety of clients both internationally and throughout the UK, but especially cases that require substantial client care. As well as family law, she has expertise in art and cultural property law, so she is particularly adept at dealing with high net worth divorces and dissolution of civil partnerships where knowledge of the art market is required.

Her family practice covers financial remedies, private children law and modern families work. Rebecca regularly works with clients experiencing domestic abuse or other trauma related issues, and this forms an integral part of her practice. Rebecca is the Chair of Resolution’s Domestic Abuse Committee. She takes a caring and empathetic approach, focusing on the needs of the whole family while safeguarding and promoting her clients’ best interests.

Her art and cultural property practice spans both contentious and non-contentious matters, including disputes concerning attribution, provenance, title, authenticity and illegally trafficked goods. Rebecca is the Chair of the PAIAM Board (UK and Europe).

• Advising on financial remedy applications and children law matters which are high conflict or involve allegations of domestic abuse.
• Advising on complex, multifaceted financial remedy applications involving trust assets, art collections, family wealth or inheritance.
• Advising on divorces with an international element, including jurisdiction races in Dubai and Russia, and cross border matrimonial disputes.
• Advising on family law cases where family and criminal issues need to be considered in tandem.
• Pre and postnuptial agreements.
• Advising on all issues concerning the arrangements for children, particularly cases involving parental alienation, developmental disorders such as autism, relocation within or outside of England and Wales (also known as leave to remove) and financial provision for children.
• Advising on cases which involve modern family law, such as international surrogacy.

‘The new NCDR rules and Domestic abuse’, The Review – Resolution’s Magazine (May 2024)

‘Divorce rows over money must end after death, Supreme Court rules’, The Times (May 2023)

‘Financial provision claim upon divorce cannot proceed if a party dies, UKSC rules’ Today’s Family Lawyer (May 2023)

Rebecca has been closely involved with Resolution’s Domestic Abuse Committee since 2022, becoming Co-Chair in 2024. In 2025 she introduced a workplace policy at her former firm to support employees facing relationship breakdown, an initiative recognised by the Law Society Gazette as the first of its kind.

Rebecca founded PING, the Next Generation arm of the Professional Advisors to the International Art Market (PAIAM), in 2021 and chaired its committee until 2023 before joining the main Board for the UK and Europe. She became Vice Chair in 2024 and was elected Chair in 2025.

LexisNexis Family Law Awards: Shortlisted as Family Law Associate of the Year (2024)
Rising Star Resolution Awards: Rising Star Finalist (2024)
Chambers and Partners: Ranked as Associate to Watch (2024, 2025)
Chambers and Partners HNW Awards: Shortlisted as Star Associate (2024)
Legal 500: Ranked as a Rising Star and then Leading Associate (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)