Family Law

Bush Forbes can provide you with practical and sensible advice about your family and your family property including the care of your children, your personal relationships, your family property, estate planning and entering into or exiting any relationship.  

We all face exciting, challenging, rewarding, happy and sad times in our lives, especially when your loved ones are involved.  From beginning a relationship, to starting a family, to creating an asset base, to ending a relationship or planning your estate, the specialist family team at Bush Forbes can help you at every step in a caring and supportive environment.

Care of Children
- Adoption orders
- Parenting Agreements
- Child support arrangements
- Domestic Violence
- Family Court Counselling
- Guardianship matters
- Children Young Persons and their Families (CYF)

Relationship Property
- Contracting Out Agreements
- Separation and Property Relationship Agreements
- Application for division of Relationship Property
- Spousal Maintenance
- Dissolution

Family Trusts
- Formation and Administration of Family trusts
- Formation and use of a charitable trust
- Asset protection advice
- Gifting programmes / forgiveness of debt
- The use of trusts and the Property (Relationships) Act 1976

Estate Planning
- Elderly care and welfare
- Estate Planning
- Rest home and retirement village contracts 
- Preparing wills
- Preparation of powers of attorney and enduring powers of attorney
- Family protection and testamentary promises claims

Dispute Resolution
- Round table meetings
- Mediation

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