If you are considering separation or have recently separated we can assist you in identifying the next steps together with the risks specific to your circumstances and how best to protect yourself, your assets, your children and their best interests and your overall position within the legal context.

Where you are already engaged in legal proceedings we will work with you to formulate a strategy so as to best represent you through this process and achieve your desired outcomes while providing you with realistic advice as to your prospects.

We have experience in all areas of the family law process including:

• Alternate dispute resolution including mediations, conciliation conferences, court based family dispute resolution and negotiations between parties;

• Drafting Application for Consent Orders, Consent Orders or Parenting Plans where there is agreement between parties;

• Initiating proceedings and responding to applications in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia;

• Interlocutory or ‘interim’ proceedings;

• Trial representation including drafting Affidavits of Evidence in Chief and all other supporting documentation;

• Appeals;

• Applications for Divorce;

• Financial Agreements including those entered into before commencing a relationship (‘pre nuptial agreements), before or in contemplation of marriage, and after separation; and

• Spousal maintenance agreements and applications; and

• Child Support and Binding Child Support Agreements.

We appear regularly in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia both as solicitor advocates and when briefing Counsel.