Family Law: Advanced Parenting Issues
Gain practical insights into important issues for your family law practice and your parenting and children’s matters from a panel of family law experts and a clinical psychologist. You’ll examine the making of urgent and ex-parte applications, how to manage forensic evidence in parenting matters and delve into relocation matters in the age of COVID. Also, gain valuable insights on some diversionary skills for children’s matters that you might consider. WEB2111V04
Description
Attend and earn 4 CPD units including:
1 unit in Substantive Law
3 units in Professional Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Chair: Minal Vohra SC, Holmes List of Counsel; Market Leader, Parenting & Children’s Matters Senior Counsel, Doyle’s Guide 2021
Professional Skills
9.00am to 10.00am Making Urgent and Ex-Parte Applications
- Recovery, contravention or enforcing parenting orders
- Self-help v court interventions
- Cross examine your client to get their narrative straight
- Watch List - for when Covid lifts….
- Reasonable excuse for contravening
- Undertakings from supervisors
Presented by Caroline Counsel, Manager Partner, Caroline Counsel Family Lawyers; Accredited Specialist in Family Law
10.00am to 11.00am Forensic Evidence in Family Law Parenting
- Admissibility of evidence in parenting matters; what rules still apply
- Subpoenas in relation to children
- Consideration of the relationship between the child and an expert: the cost of compromising the therapeutic relationship
- What other evidence may be relevant to parenting proceedings
- Who can give evidence in proceedings relating to children and how such evidence should be provided
- The impact of social media on parenting proceedings (Facebook/Instagram)
- Inspecting sensitive subpoenaed material in the Covid-19 era
Presented by Evelyn Young, Partner, Mitchell Family Law; Accredited Specialist in Family Law; Recommended Parenting & Children’s Matters Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2020
11.00am to 11.15am Morning Tea
Professional Skills
11.15am to 12.15pm Relocation Cases and How to Run a Recovery Application or Dealing with it Practically
- Recent and updated relocation cases
- Interim re-locations
- Impact of COVID-19 on international re-location matters
- Practical tips for the re-locating party and the party opposing re-location
Presented by Rachell Davey, Partner, Lander & Rogers; Accredited Specialist in Family Law; Recommended Parenting & Children’s Matters Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2021
Professional Skills
12.15pm to 1.15pm Diversionary Skills for Children’s Matters
- Court and limits of orders to effect lasting change for children
- Parental behaviours and impact on children
- Reportable v Therapeutic Counselling: Too late to stop the court process?
- Value proposition of working with clients and their lawyers in a diversion
- What can lawyers do differently when working with parents?
Presented by Vincent Papaleo, Director / Clinical Psychologist, Vincent Papaleo & Associates
Presenters
Minal Vohra SC
Minal took Silk in November 2017. She was the Victorian Bar Representative of the Family Law Section of the Law Council of Australia for 14 years from 2007 until 2021. Minal completed the Australian Institute of Family Law Arbitrators and Mediators' arbitration course in 2008 and is an accredited Family Law Arbitrator and member of AIFLAM. She is an accredited Advocacy Instructor with the Australian Advocacy Institute and has taught at its advocacy training workshops and assisted with moots and evaluations for the Bar Readers' Course. Minal is a Victorian Bar Conciliator and a member of the Bar's Continuing Professional Development Committee. She is a member of the Asian Australian Lawyers' Association. In 2020, she was the co-editor of Australian Family Lawyer, a journal for family law professionals published through the Law Council of Australia.
Rachell Davey
Rachell has practised in family and relationship law since 2000. She has been involved in all aspects of family law with particular expertise in complex property and financial matters. Rachell holds a Master' of International Law (2005) from the University of Melbourne and practises in international family law matters involving expatriate Australians, or for clients across multiple family law jurisdictions. She is highly adept at resolving complex property matters involving corporate entities, businesses, addressing the taxation implications of settlement and third parties. Rachell has extensive experience drafting financial agreements (both pre and post nuptial) and advising clients of the appropriateness of a financial agreement in their circumstances. She also assists clients with complex parenting arrangements involving interstate and overseas relocation.
Caroline Counsel
Caroline Counsel in the principal of Counsel Family Lawyers. She is an accredited Family Law Specialist, Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner and Collaborative Professional ( trained at advanced level). Caroline is a Past President of the Law Institute of Victoria (LIV). Caroline is presently the Chair of the Family Violence Portfolio at the LIV, member of the Family Violence Taskforce (chaired by Chief Magistrate Peter Lauristen), member of the Family Law Section and Collaborative Practice Sections of the LIV. Caroline is a member of the following inaugural Boards: Legal Admissions Board of Victoria under the Uniform Law and the Australian Association of Collaborative Professionals.
Vincent Papaleo
Vincent Papaleo is a Clinical Psychologist who specialises in working with child and family problems, predominantly within the Family Court. He has a Bachelor of Behavioural Sciences (B.B.Sc.) obtained from Latrobe University in 1980, a Master of Arts in Psychology, obtained from California State University in 1982; he is a member of the Australian Psychological Society, and a Member of the Board of Clinical Psychologist. His experience in the Family Court now spans over twenty-five years, during which time he has been asked to complete many court reports, commenting on welfare related issues. Within the Family Law context, Vincent's main interest is helping people find alternative paths to conflict resolution, assisting parents who are in high conflict, and crafting child based intervention.
Evelyn Young
Evelyn has practised exclusively in family law since 2011. She has extensive experience in all aspects of family law including property disputes, children’s matters, de facto matters, financial agreements, spousal maintenance, surrogacy and child support. Delivering the best possible outcomes to clients in a practical and cost effective manner is Evelyn’s overriding objective. She is also a trained Collaborative Lawyer, and enjoys assisting clients with the Collaborative Practice process. Evelyn is an Accredited Family Law specialist and is recognised in the 2019-2020 editions of Doyle’s Guide as a Recommended Parenting and Children’s Matter Lawyer. She has written and delivered papers on many areas of family law, and is a regular presenter. She was the joint winner of the 2015 LIV Rogers Legal Writing Award for the best contribution to the Law Institute Journal. Evelyn is a member of the Family Law Advisory Committee to the Accreditation Board of the Law Institute of Victoria for Family Law.