Ending a Relationship
Legal advice on:
- Divorce
- Separation
- De facto separation
Childrens Matters
- Consent parenting orders
- Parenting Plans
- Child support
- Custody
- Access
- Relocation including internation relocation of children.
- Applications for location and recovery of children
- International disputes under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction
- Grandparents’ rights
Property Matters
- Options to formalise family law property settlements out of Court including:
- Consent Orders
- Binding Financial Agreements
- Legal representation in family law property matters proceedings in Court.
- Interim applications including
- Urgent injunction applications to safeguard property.
- Applications for sole occupation of matrimonial property.
- Spousal maintenance = Should this be under property?
- Urgent financial assistance.
- Final spousal maintenance.
Cohabitation Agreements under Family Law Act, 1975 (Cth)
Binding Financial Agreements including:
- Pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements.
- Agreements before de facto relationship.
- Agreements during marriage and during relationship.
- Child support – Including administrative appeals from Child Support Assessment
- Private Child Support Agreement under Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989
- For periodic child support payments.
- School fees.
- Special health costs of children such as medical, orthodontic etc.
- Maintenance of adult children
- Spousal Maintenance
Financial Support
Settling matters without going to Court, including:
- Negotiated settlement through agreement between parties
- Representation in mediation
- Four-way meetings (direct negotiations between parties and lawyers without mediator)
- Advice to support parties to settle without lawyers
Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Adoption matters including adoption of children and adults
- In ACT and NSW
Adoption
- Consent superannuation splitting orders including in self-managed superannuation funds.
- Representation in proceedings seeking superannuation splitting orders.
- Superannuation splitting financial agreements under Family Law Act, 1975 (Cth)
Superannuation
- Representation in Court proceedings in the Magistrates Court in Canberra and the Local Courts in New South Wales
- Family Violence Orders (FVOs)/Apprehended Violence matters /Protection orders
Domestic violence, family violence cases
Assistance with Do-It-Yourself family law matters
- Divorce
- Consent orders
- Parenting Plans
- Self-representation in Court proceedings
