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Family Law
Resolution With Confidence
As we are a family-run business, you will always receive the best, personal, empathetic, and welcoming approach from our family lawyers. Our clients seem to like our way of doing things, as they often refer friends and family members to us.
From our head office in Nedlands, our team provides family law services to clients throughout Australia, the Perth metropolitan area, and more locally in the Western Suburbs. We also have an office in Joondalup.
Contact our legal team today for a confidential discussion about your family law matter.
Our Family Law Services
Divorce & Separation
Our experienced divorce lawyers provide expert guidance throughout the legal separation and divorce process. We can assist you with preparing, filing, or opposing a divorce application, and can represent you at a Family Court divorce hearing where required.
Under Australian divorce law, you cannot apply for divorce unless you have been separated from your spouse for at least 12 months.
Certain time limits apply in Family Court proceedings for property settlement and spousal maintenance claims. If you separate from your partner, you must commence any application for property settlement or maintenance within the applicable timeframes.
Parenting Arrangements
Reaching an agreement with your former spouse or partner about parenting arrangements can be challenging. Parenting matters often involve complex issues, including who the children will live with, how much time the other parent spends with the children, schooling decisions, school holiday arrangements, and responsibility for education, clothing, medical expenses, and other child-related costs.
Our experienced family lawyers are highly skilled in parenting disputes. We work with you to negotiate and formalise parenting agreements that promote outcomes in the best interests of your children, whether through negotiation, mediation, or Family Court proceedings. We also have considerable experience of dealing with child support
matters.
We provide child-focused, practical family law advice designed to minimise parental conflict and support children in maintaining a meaningful and ongoing relationship with both parents, wherever possible.
Property Settlement & Maintenance
Mediation Services
Our family lawyers provide clients with mediation and family dispute resolution services in relation to financial settlements and parenting arrangements, both prior to and after the commencement of Family Court proceedings. They also conduct lawyer-assisted Mediation Style Conferences.
Our Principal, Mark Davies, is accredited by the Attorney General’s Department as a family dispute resolution practitioner and is a nationally accredited mediator under the national mediator accreditation system as well as a family lawyer. Mark can issue the requisite certificate that enables filing an application with the Family Court forparenting orders.
Family Violence Restraining Orders
You can make an application for a family violence restraining order (FVRO) in the Magistrates Court, if a family member, including your partner or former partner has committed family violence against you or your children.
Family violence is not limited to physical assaults and includes any behaviour that coerces or controls another family member or causes them to be fearful. It includes, derogatory remarks, denying financial autonomy or financial support and distributing or publishing, or threatening to distribute or publish personal images.
Our family lawyers act for clients who seek the protection of an FVRO and clients who have been served with an FVRO. If you are served with an FVRO you should seek legal advice from one of our experienced family lawyers as early as possible, as there are time limits that apply to any objection you may wish to make.
Child Support
Separated parents, including same-sex parents, have a legal obligation to financially support their children, including adopted children. In certain circumstances, non-parent carers, such as grandparents, legal guardians, or other family members, may also be responsible for providing financial support for children in their care.
Child support arrangements in Australia are designed to ensure that children receive appropriate financial support following separation, based on each parent’s capacity to contribute and the needs of the child.
Child support may be agreed privately between separated parents and others responsible for the care of children, or it may be assessed by Services Australia.