We prepare Wills that reflect your wishes clearly and minimise the risk of dispute.  Our lawyers take the time to understand your family dynamics, assets, business interests and future goals to ensure your Will is both comprehensive and practical.

An EPA allows you to appoint a trusted person to make financial and property decisions if you lose capacity.  It is one of the most important safeguards you can have.  A properly drafted EPA protects your assets and ensures your finances are handled by someone you trust.

An EPG appoints someone to make personal, lifestyle and medical decisions if you can no longer make them yourself.  This includes decisions about where you live, the services you receive and your healthcare options.  It provides peace of mind and prevents conflict within families when difficult decisions need to be made.

Estate planning is far more than preparing a Will.  It involves making clear decisions about your financial, personal and medical future.  It ensures that the people you trust can step in when needed.  Our role is to guide you through these decisions with clarity and support, so your wishes are respected and your loved ones are protected.

We work with individuals, families, business owners and farming enterprises to create tailored, thoughtful and practical estate plans.

Testamentary trusts, created within your Will, can offer tax advantages, asset protection and long-term benefits for beneficiaries.  These trusts are highly effective for families who want to protect assets over the long term.

Family Mediation is an important tool to use following a separation. Our Perth Family Mediation service have extensive networks with a broad range of different mediators, all of whom have different strengths and approaches. This means we can tailor our family mediation process to meet your particular needs.

In most parenting disputes, parents must attend Family Dispute Resolution before making an application to the Family Court of Western Australia. Parents can utilise government funded Dispute Resolution services at Relationships Australia or Anglicare, or can elect to engage a mediator privately. When both parties participate in the process, mediation can be a highly effective way of resolving a dispute entirely, or at the very least, narrowing the issues in dispute, before Court action is taken.

If both parties are legally represented in a property settlement matter, in most instances they will be strongly encouraged to attend our Mediation-Style Conference, either before starting proceedings in the Family Court, or after the first hearing of the Application.

A Mediation-Style Conference is a half or full-day mediation attended by the parties, their lawyers and a qualified Mediation Chairperson. All participants should prepare for the mediation to maximise the prospects of a successful outcome.

Mediation-Style Conferences can be a highly effective means of reaching a settlement (in relation to property settlement and / or parenting) outside of Court.

Adoption is the legal process by which a child ceases to be the legal child of his or her birth parents and becomes instead the child of the adoptive parents, as if born to them.

We can help you with the process of adoption, which is relatively straightforward.