Our Family Law Team will listen to you, understand the things that concern you and provide sensible advice and a strategic plan to achieve the best solution for you. They will represent you in a way that implements your strategic plan and achieves your goals in the best possible way.

Areas of Expertise

• Assessing a client’s situation and advising the best legal options
• Suggesting expedient and cost-effective solutions in order to minimise emotional and financial stress
• Negotiating and drafting Binding Financial Agreements applicable to domestic (de-facto) and/or same sex relationships
• Negotiating fair and sensible outcomes for property division and children’s arrangements following the breakdown of marriages and relationships
• Representing clients in mediations and other dispute resolution processes
• Obtaining valuations of matrimonial assets, including complex business interests and corporate structures
• Tracing of assets/income streams and obtaining forensic accounting advice if appropriate
• Representing clients in contested court proceedings relating to property division, spousal maintenance claims, and/or urgent proceedings involving restraints and injunctions, e.g. sole use of former matrimonial home
• Representing clients in contested court proceedings relating to arrangements for children, including:
  • parental responsibility
  • who a child is to live with
  • arrangements for a child to spend time with and communicate with a parent
  • relocation issues (including the unlawful removal of children from the jurisdiction)
  • passport disputes, and other specific issues
• Representing clients in child support and adult child maintenance disputes and negotiating and drafting private Child Support Agreements
• Negotiating and drafting superannuation splitting orders and agreements
• Preparing and appearing in Divorce Applications
• Representing clients in Intervention Order Applications

Our team includes lawyers who are Law Institute of Victoria Accredited Specialists.

For further information, please contact our Family Law team on +61 3  8540 0200 or by email to family@mst.com.au.