Family Law

Our lawyers have extensive backgrounds in Family Law, in both transactional and litigation matters. We understand that family matters are deeply personal and can cause some of life’s most stressful challenges. We pride ourselves on our professional, and compassionate approach to resolving these matters. 

Our team can help with:

Care of Children & Guardianship

  • Assisting with day-to-day care, contact, and guardianship matters in the best interests of your child.
  • Child abduction & Applications under the Hague Convention

Separation & Dissolution of Marriage

  • Advice on legal process for separations
  • Applying for a dissolution of marriage (divorce)
  • Drafting, reviewing, advising and negotiating separation agreements

Family Violence & Protection Orders

  • Providing support in urgent matters involving family harm, including applying for or responding to protection orders.

Relationship Property

  • Advice on relationship property divisions
  • Advising, drafting, negotiating and reviewing settlement agreements, including contracting out agreements (prenuptial agreement), and relationship property settlement agreements (postnuptial agreements).

Family Court Proceedings

  • Representing clients in Family Court Proceedings where agreements cannot be reached. This includes disputes over:
    • Parenting;
    • Relationship Property;
    • Protection Orders;
    • Other matters.

General Advice

  • Any other issues arising from family relationships

“The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.”

— john smith