All areas of practice

Legal Services

Family Law

• Divorce
• De facto property
• Married property
• Spousal maintenance
• Child support
• Cohabitation Agreements
• Pre Nuptial Agreements
• Binding Financial Agreements
• Recovery Orders
• Passport Applications
• Enforcement of orders/Contraventions
• Complex matters involving bankruptcy or creditors after separation
• Binding Financial Agreements
• Pre Nuptial Agreements
• Child Protection
• Relocation of children
• Variation of final orders

Crimes Family Violence

• Intervention orders
• Police charges on breach of intervention orders

Criminal

• Police charges that can be heard summarily 
• General advice on police matters and before record of interview taken 
• Serious matters (check with our referral list)

Civil

• Civil Litigation
• Debt Recovery
• Contract Disputes

Commercial

• Commercial Litigation
• Solicitor’s certificates/advice on mortgage & loan documents
• Advice on contracts, lease and franchises
• Secured loans

Conveyancing

• Gift transfers and other special transfers (excluding for purchase or sale)
• Purchase and sale (check with our referral list)

Finance/Property

• Refinance of mortgages
• Transfers of land for gifts, trusts, family law arrangements
• Caveats
• Land Titles Office applications to remove caveats
• In house mortgage broker to help with refinance of mortgage with current lender (or find new lender) for a purchase

Legal Aid Matters

• Simplified Grants Process Panel –Family Law and Intervention orders (approval of funding within 24 hours for 99% of cases so work can start immediately on day of interview if legal aid approved)
• Standard Legal Aid application for all other types of matters
• Interstate Legal Aid matters

Personal Injury

• Victims of crime (VOCAT)
• Work injuries and other civil claims
• Death and class action claims (check with our referral list)

Probate

• Acting for executors of wills 
• Acting for personal representatives where there is no will 
• Supreme Court disputes over wills or the distribution of estates 
• Part IV Claims (Family Provision for family members left out of will) 
• Survivorship applications (transfers between joint owners when one has died)

Power of Attorney

• Legal and Financial 
• Medical
• Guardianship issues and VCAT 
• General enduring or specific powers

Wills

• Simple wills
• Mirror wills for husband and wife
• Mirror wills for domestic partners
• General estate planning
• Complex wills with testamentary trusts to keep assets within the family