Family lawyers often work with clients facing significant emotional and psychological distress. While empathy is an essential part of effective advocacy, it can be challenging to maintain professional boundaries when dealing with highly sensitive and traumatic cases.
Family lawyers often work with clients facing significant emotional and psychological distress. While empathy is an essential part of effective advocacy, it can be challenging to maintain professional boundaries when dealing with highly sensitive and traumatic cases.
A Melbourne man has learned the hard way that dishonesty in family law proceedings has serious consequences—criminal ones.
Property settlements are a cornerstone of family law practice, especially in high-net-worth cases involving trusts, businesses, and self-managed super funds (SMSFs). Managing these complexities requires precise calculations, tailored strategies, and having the ability to wade through information to gather and collate the relevant information to assist your client and a valuer.
Family violence is complex, deeply personal, and often misunderstood.
One of the greatest barriers to recognising and responding to family violence is the persistence of the ‘perfect victim’ myth—the idea that survivors must behave in a certain way to be believed. As family lawyers, it is critical to challenge these misconceptions so we can better identify, support, and advocate for clients who may be at risk.
The rise of Collaborative Practice in family law is undoubtably having a positive impact on both the profession, and the clients we serve. Those who undertaking the formal training report invaluable insights which only compound when those skills are applied to real cases.
