I am a lawyer in Swaab’s fam­i­ly law team. I have been work­ing in fam­i­ly saw since the com­mence­ment of my law degree. Hav­ing worked as an asso­ciate to a Judge in the Fed­er­al Cir­cuit and Fam­i­ly Court of Aus­tralia, I am famil­iar with the court sys­tem and alter­na­tive means to resolv­ing dis­putes. I have expe­ri­ence in deal­ing with par­ent­ing and prop­er­ty dis­putes and I am con­tin­u­ing to gain prac­ti­cal expe­ri­ence in these areas each day. I am pas­sion­ate about sup­port­ing my clien­t’s through what are undoubt­ed­ly some of their most dif­fi­cult per­son­al circumstance.

Exper­tise

  • Fam­i­ly Law

Sec­tor

  • Pri­vate Client & Fam­i­ly Businesses

Expe­ri­ence

  • Dis­putes involv­ing par­ent­ing, sep­a­ra­tion and prop­er­ty dis­putes relat­ing to rela­tion­ship breakdowns
  • Prepa­ra­tion of doc­u­ments and plead­ings in prepa­ra­tion for court appear­ances as well as alter­na­tive dis­pute res­o­lu­tion conference.
  • Work­ing with clients in the midst of fam­i­ly law dis­putes and build­ing client relations.
  • Expe­ri­ence in advo­ca­cy and court process as an Asso­ciate to a Judge of the Fed­er­al Cir­cuit and Fam­i­ly Court of Australia.

Roles, Mem­ber­ship and Education

  • Bach­e­lor of Laws/​Bachelor of Crim­i­nal & Com­mu­ni­ty Jus­tice, West­ern Syd­ney University.
  • Grad­u­ate Diplo­ma of Legal Prac­tice, The Col­lege of Law.
  • The Law Soci­ety of New South Wales.

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Publications

Match­ing Par­ent­ing Orders to Risk: Craft­ing orders to prop­er­ly address the dan­gers in a fam­i­ly law matter

The focus of any par­ent­ing mat­ter being dealt with in the Fed­er­al Cir­cuit and Fam­i­ly Court of Aus­tralia is what…

Are Prenups the height of romance? Rethink­ing Bind­ing Finan­cial Agreements

When peo­ple think about ​‘romance’, they tend to imag­ine things like can­dle­light, flow­ers, oys­ters, cham­pagne. Well, con­trary to pop­u­lar belief…

Are We; Aren’t We? Deter­min­ing whether a De Fac­to rela­tion­ship exists

As soci­ety and our views about mod­ern rela­tion­ships change, we have seen few­er peo­ple rush­ing to the alter, with many…

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