Georgia is an accredited specialist in family law and is based in the Melbourne office of Lander & Rogers.
Georgia specialises in all aspects of financial, parenting and child support issues, particularly the more complex matters that can arise after a relationship breakdown.
Georgia understands that separation is a highly emotional and stressful time. From the first meeting, she provides simple and strategic advice to her clients. Georgia supports her clients by working with their financial advisors, accountants and psychologists to ease their experience and ensure they are as informed as possible about the legal and practical outcomes of their decisions.
Georgia focuses on quick and effective settlements to deliver favourable outcomes for her clients, while balancing their personal, emotional and financial needs. She is mindful of many parents' desire to maintain a cooperative and respectful parenting relationship, which can often be complicated by separation.
Georgia is committed to reaching outcomes that benefit her clients. She focuses on obtaining controlled outcomes by encouraging open dialogue, direct discussions and early resolution-focused conferences.
Georgia is also a skilled litigator and has represented both individuals and corporations at interim and final hearings. While Georgia's first preference is always to resolve matters by agreement, where court proceedings are necessary and strategically advantageous to her client, she will fast-track court proceedings without hesitation.
Experience
Georgia's areas of expertise include:
- spousal maintenance
- financial agreements
- child support agreements
- child maintenance and adult child maintenance
- parenting matters, including high-conflict matters, involving the Department, Independent Children's Lawyers and child protection
- property settlements, including complex court proceedings involving third parties, subpoenas and court proceedings in other jurisdictions
- litigating high-conflict parenting matters involving Independent Children's Lawyers and child protection
- appearing in complex property matters involving third parties, subpoenas and multiple sets of court proceedings
- intervention orders and family violence matters
- divorce
- enforcing or setting aside final court orders
- out-of-court settlements for parenting and property matters.
Career highlights
Georgia's career highlights include:
- successfully defending a corporation from being added to court proceedings in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division 1) where the inclusion of the corporation was not required to adjust the parties' property settlement entitlements
- successfully defending the enforceability of a financial agreement at final hearing in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division 1).