The Family Law Act encourages parties to not only attempt reconciliation, but also to negotiate and attend counselling and/or mediation, where appropriate, in order to avoid the need for parties to resort to court orders to settle children’s and financial matters.
The Family Court prescribes that legal representatives must advise you about alternate dispute resolution services such as mediation, family counselling, family dispute resolution, conciliation, arbitration and family counseling before you resort to court action for resolution of your family law matter/s. Prime's Family Lawyers are experienced in this field of law and can advise you on these forms of dispute resolution.
Furthermore in some cases it is compulsory to attend family dispute resolution before lodging an application with the Family Court seeking to resolve a children’s matter. The courts also have the power to order parties to attend alternate dispute resolution even once an application has been lodged.
Not only is pre-court dispute resolution significantly less expensive than court action, experience has shown that where the parties are able to come to agreement between themselves rather than rely on the imposition of orders by the court, they are more likely to be satisfied with the outcome and adhere to the agreement.
How can Prime Lawyers help?
Prime's Family Lawyers have obtained many favourable results for our clients in family law matters through negotiations with their ex-partners. Our Family Lawyers aim to settle matters out of court as litigation can be stressful and expensive. However, we realise that for some people, negotiation is not what is needed to achieve a just, fair and acceptable result and we are experienced in representing clients in Family Court proceedings. We fight vigorously for our client's rights.
We are able to arrange and assist you to prepare and attend alternative dispute resolution services in order to quickly and economically achieve settlement of your family law issue. In addition we have experience in arranging, preparing for and attending mediation sessions for and with you, an approach that has proven to be very successful at achieving excellent results for our clients.
Please contact us on (02) 9521 2222 to speak with a family lawyer today. You can also send through your enquiry online now and we will contact you shortly.