Family Law Parenting Skills Forum
Get firsthand knowledge and valuable practical insights from our panel of Family Law specialists at this Parenting Skills Forum. Explore key practices on how to navigate the new FCFCoA processes in Parenting matters. Understand how to represent someone who is estranged from their children, how to deal with relocation cases and how to manage disputes around vaccinations. Finally, learn the ins and outs of instigating parenting applications in the new FCFCoA regime. WEB226Q05
Description
Attend and earn 4 CPD units in Professional Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Chair: Pippa Colman, Director, Pippa Colman & Associates Law Practice; Preeminent Family & Divorce Lawyer, Leading Parenting & Children’s Matters Lawyer and Recommended Family Lawyer (High-Value & Complex Property Matters), Doyle’s Guide 2022
9.00am to 10.00am How to Represent Someone who is Estranged from their Children
- Dealing with children being coached or manipulated
- Does your client have anything to do with it?
- Interaction with domestic violence clients
- Managing the client’s expectation
Presented by Dianne Pendergast, Barrister, Brisbane Chambers; Recommended Family Law Junior Counsel and Parenting & Children’s Matters Barrister, Doyle’s Guide 2022
10.00am to 11.00am Things to Know in ‘Relocation’ Cases: From Whoa/Woe to go?
- What are the cases you should know?
- A step-by-step work through of the options available
- The question of relocating:
- At an interim stage
- At a final stage
- If final orders are already in place
- A consideration of coercive orders
Presented by Paula Eviston, Barrister, Quay 11 Chambers
11.00am to 11.15am Morning Tea
11.15am to 12.15pm Vaccinations for Children: How to Deal with Disputes
Presented by Jennifer McArdle, Barrister, Level 27 Santos Place Chambers
12.15pm to 1.15pm Presenting Parenting Applications Under the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division 1) and Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division 2) Regimes
- Different applications you can make under the new Regime
- What do I need to file?
- What to do if my application is urgent
- Common traps in making Interim applications for parenting, contraventions, and enforcement
Presenting Samantha Bolton, Director, Pippa Colman & Associates Law Practice; Independent Children’s Lawyer; Recommended Family & Divorce Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2022
Presenters
Pippa Colman
Pippa Colman, the Founding Director of Pippa Colman & Associates Law Practice, was admitted in February 1979. She became a Family Law Accredited Specialist in 1997 and is also a mediator and arbitrator. Pippa has worked in every aspect of Family Law, including Property, Children, Spousal Maintenance, Child Support, Domestic Violence, Binding Financial Agreements and Hague Applications. She has appeared as an advocate in the Magistrates Court, District Court & Supreme Court of Queensland, and in the Family Court of Australia and Federal Circuit Court of Australia. Pippa has been presenting for providers of Continuing Professional Development since the 1980s. She is passionate about Family Law and continuing education and mentoring younger practitioners.
Dianne Pendergast
Dianne Pendergast was admitted to practice law in 1986. Since then, she has practiced predominantly in family law, wills and estates, child protection and domestic violence. Dianne was a partner in a boutique practice until 1992, when she was appointed as a registrar of the Family Court where she worked as a mediator, conciliator and conducted interim hearings for the next 14 years. In 2006 Dianne was appointed to the statutory position of Adult Guardian (Qld.). Dianne has practiced as a barrister for the last 10 years.
Paula Eviston
Paula graduated with a Juris Doctor of Laws from Bond University in 2014. Paula was admitted in 2015 to the Supreme Court of Queensland and the High Court of Australia. Following her admission, Paula worked predominately in Family and Criminal law in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast. Paula is a dedicated and compassionate Barrister, providing detailed advice and advocating strongly on her client’s behalf. Paula was called to the Bar in Queensland in 2022.
Jennifer McArdle
Jenn McArdle specialises in all aspects of family law and child protection matters, representing clients in the Federal and State Courts, both in Brisbane and in regional areas.Jenn studied law at the Queensland Institute of Technology and commenced articles in Brisbane in 1987. She was admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland in 1989, and worked in private practice for several years, advising on wills and estates, commercial property, personal injuries matters and family law. In 1995, she joined Legal Aid Queensland, as a Solicitor in their Family Law section. Her practice thereafter, apart from a year as the executive legal officer, was exclusively in family law, including five years as a Family Law Consultant in the family law section. Jenn was called to the Bar in 2010, and has in recent years appeared on behalf of clients in various appellate matters. She is a longstanding member of the Queensland family law community, and of the Family Law Practitioners Association of Queensland (FLPA), of which she has served as President (2008 and 2009) and as a board member (2001-2009). She has been a member of the Family Law section of the Law Council of Australia since 1998. She is also a member of the Bar Association of Queensland’s Family Law Committee.
Samantha Bolton
Samantha joined Pippa Colman & Associates as a Director in August 2021. Samantha has over 13 years’ experience as a lawyer and is highly regarded and sought after for her extensive experience in parenting matters. Samantha is a member of the Independent Children’s Lawyer Panel and Separate Representative Panel for Legal Aid Queensland, in which she is appointed to assist in complex parenting matters in the Family and Federal Circuit Court of Australia and Children’s Court. Samantha can assist clients with interstate or international relocation matters, parental alienation cases, negotiating arrangements for children after separation and preparing Parenting Plans and Consent Orders, as well as all property related matters, domestic and family violence and Child Protection matters. Samantha is actively involved in the local Sunshine Coast legal community. She has been involved with the Sunshine Coast Law Association since 2011 and has held the position of President from 2018 to 2020 and Vice-President from 2020-2021. From 2009 to 2018, Samantha was involved with Suncoast Community Legal Service, including President between 2012 and 2014, and a Committee Member from 2011 to 2017. Since 2018, Samantha is the Ambassador for the Sunshine Coast Region from the Women Lawyers Association. Samantha is a Judiciary Member for the Sunshine Coast Rugby Union and is a sessional lecturer at the University of the Sunshine Coast.