Kate Daly

Kate Daly (born October 1970) is a British entrepreneur, author and former relationship counsellor. She is the co-founder of amicable, an online legal service for people navigating relationship change, including cohabitation, divorce and separation in England and Wales. She also hosts The Divorce Podcast, which explores relationships, separation, wellbeing and co-parenting.

Daly has commented on divorce processes and has supported approaches that prioritise cooperation between separating couples.

Early life and education Daly grew up near Whipsnade, Bedfordshire.

In iNews, Daly wrote that after her divorce she began working with lawyers to help couples navigate the emotional aspects of separation before co-founding her company amicable.

According to The Sunday Times, Daly's own divorce, which cost around £80,000 in legal fees, influenced her decision to create an alternative approach for separating couples.

The Guardian reported that the platform initially helped couples prepare information before meeting a solicitor, before expanding into broader support services around divorce and separation.

The BBC reported that amicable was designed to help couples agree and draft divorce settlements collaboratively, without relying on traditional solicitor-led processes.

High Court case In 2020, amicable was involved in a High Court case concerning whether its business model breached conflict of interest rules or the Legal Services Act by assisting separating couples in preparing legal documents.

In the case of JK v MK , Mr Justice Mostyn rejected the complaints and confirmed that amicable's model did not give rise to a conflict of interest and did not breach the Legal Services Act.

Publications In 2012, Daly co-authored The Courage to Ask: Cultivating Opportunity in the New Economy with John Niland, a business book exploring themes of courage and good conversations.

In 2026, she published her second book, amicable divorce: Your Practical Guide to Divorce Without the Drama, a non-fiction guide to navigating separation and divorce collaboratively. The book was published by Souvenir Press, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group.

The book was described in The Sunday Times as a guide to approaching separation in a less painful and more cooperative way, whether or not readers use Daly's company.