Practice Areas

Family law & Guardianship

“Our barristers approach family matters with care and discretion – working with instructing solicitors to balance what is fair and reasonable.”

Chris Chapman, Principal Barristers’ Clerk

Proceedings concerning family relationships, children and intervention orders are legally complex and often urgent. They require careful preparation, sound judgment and sensitive yet firm advocacy.

Chapman’s List includes barristers practising in family, children’s and intervention order matters. Members act in:

  • Intervention order applications and contested hearings
  • Parenting disputes and relocation matters
  • Child protection proceedings
  • Property and financial disputes
  • Appeals
  • Multi-jurisdictional proceedings

Barristers are briefed by family law specialists and suburban practices across Victoria and appear in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia, the Children’s Court of Victoria and the Magistrates’ Court.

Members are recognised for providing clear strategic advice, careful preparation and confident courtroom advocacy in matters that are often highly sensitive and factually complex.

Technical Expertise

We appear in family, children’s and intervention order matters, from urgent hearings to complex parenting disputes.
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