Divorcing? You’d Better Disclose your Crypto Assets…

Meet Victoria Clarke, a family law solicitor who understands crypto — a vital skill set in divorce disclosure — and find out why friends were not allowed to sleep in her spare room and why she still gets carded when she buys alcohol.

There is a picture of Victoria Clarke in the attic, covered in a faded sheet where her image ages unseen. In the real world, this successful 30-year-old solicitor still gets carded when she tries to buy alcohol. I peered at the image on her WhatsApp profile as we began this interview and I had to ask if I was speaking with a grownup and not a teenager by mistake.

It was indeed Victoria Clarke and we continued to have an interesting interview about her tenacity and determination to study law, her work in family law practice, and how her knowledge about cryptocurrency makes her the ideal sleuth in crypto asset detection for disclosure in divorce cases.

Victoria moved around a lot as a child. Her father worked for an international pharmaceutical company and they moved from the UK to Spain, Singapore, and Kuala Lumpur. She had to change schools and friends on a regular basis. “It made me confident,” she remembers. “Not shy but confident otherwise I would not have made any friends.”

She returned to the UK permanently when she was seven years old and she knew she wanted to study law, even at that early age. Victoria also interned as a teenager with a number of legal firms where she viewed the working life of barristers…