Counselling
It is our approach that no marital dispute should go to a defended hearing and that all effort should be made to resolve a matter either by mediation, or at the initial stage of the Court process.
The function of the mediator is not to give legal advice but to be a neutral impartial third party who facilitates the negotiations between you and your spouse.However, in some instances some matters do proceed to Court, because your partner will not take a sensible approach to negotiation. Your case will then go to Trial. It is important that you have independent legal advice about your legal position before you go to mediation.
28/09/2011 | JAIL FOR PARENTS WHO KIDNAP THEIR KIDS AND TAKE THEM OVERSEAS? It’s the stuff of nightmares – your partner stealing your kids and disappearing overseas. Statistically it happens 2 or 3 times a week in Australia. Under current law, parental international child abduction (PICA) isn’t necessarily...
17/08/2011 | WILL AWARENESS Wills. We think about making one from time to time. Or we make one and then forget all about it, regardless of our personal circumstances changing. Or we make one using a store-bought Will-kit, without advice, and hope it all pans out...
29/06/2011 | ARE WE MOVING TOWARDS SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LAWS? Same-sex marriage has recently received a lot of media attention. Under the federal Marriage Act, the definition reads “the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others, voluntarily entered into for life.” Clearly there are...
