We provide advice about child welfare, child related family law matters, and family violence.
The type of family law work VALS does is:
- Family matters: including parenting order applications, lawyer assisted mediation, parenting disputes, grandparent applications and urgent applications for recovery of a child. Unfortunately, we are not able to assist with property matters.
- Child protection matters in the Children’s Court: including pre-litigation advice and representation during court proceedings for applications brought by the Department of Families, Fairness and Housing.
- Family Violence Intervention Orders (FVO): including litigating or defending FVO applications for applicants and respondents, operating an early resolution service to assist parties reach a negotiated agreement prior to litigation. We will generally not assist an affected family member where the Police is the applicant.
- General legal information about divorce proceedings.
