CPD Required Units for Family Lawyers
Issues covered include: family law, ethics, client complaints, SMSF splitting in settlements, family law documents, binding family law agreements
Description
Earn your core CPD points while gaining excellent, detailed and practical insights into wrapping up your family law matters. Master how to manage the expectations of your clients to avoid future complaints. Examine how to deal with some common ethical dilemmas. Gain a thorough understanding of SMSF splitting in settlements and explore which documents to choose when finalising a family law matter and why, along with how to ensure your agreements are binding.
Attend and earn 4 CPD units including:
1 CPD unit in Practical Legal Ethics
1 CPD unit in Practice Management and Business Skills
1 CPD unit in Professional Skills
1 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Once seminars are completed, delegates from Western Australia may apply to The Law Society of Western Australia for family law specialist accreditation points. Each application is subject to approval by the Accreditation Committee on a case by case basis and approval is not guaranteed. Your request for points form and attached materials can be emailed to accreditation@lawsocietywa.asn.au
Chair: David Jenkin, Director, Howe Jenkin Family Lawyers; Preeminent Family & Divorce Lawyer, Leading Family Lawyer (High-Value & Complex Property Matters) and Leading Family Law Mediator, Doyle’s Guide 2018
Practice Management and Business Skills
9.00am to 10.00am: Risk Management: Managing Client Expectations to Avoid Future Complaints
- Don’t get caught up in your clients’ emotions: advising your client and not just telling them what they want to hear
- Cost disclosures: no hidden surprises
- Discussing strategy with your client: making sure they agree to it
- Engaging experts throughout the process: recognise when this is required
- Proactively handling client complaints
Presented by Rose Cocchiaro, Director; Recommended Family & Divorce Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2018, and Ashlee Wachtel, Solicitor, Resolve Divorce Lawyers
Practical Legal Ethics
10.00am to 11.00am: Ethical Dilemmas and Practical Solutions
- Ethically managing:
- Client relationships
- Unrepresented litigants
- Relationships with other practitioners
- Third parties
- Difficult clients
- Ethical duties of family lawyers where a child’s safety or welfare is at risk
- Statutory provisions
- Duties owed to the court and to your client
- How the Rules might assist
- Recent decisions
Presented by Andrea Horvat, Barrister, William Light Chambers; Leading Family Law Junior Counsel, Doyle’s Guide 2019
11.00am to 11.15am Morning Tea
11.15am to 12.15pm: LIVE WEB PRESENTATION: SMSF Splitting: The Keys to Understanding and Implementing a Splitting Order
- Family Law Act requirements
- SIS Reg requirements
- Should you create a new interest?
- When to rollover
- Can the split be paid out?
- Taxation aspects
- CGT rollover relief
- Transfer balance account adjustments
Presented by Stephen Bourke, Director, SuperSplitting; Accredited Superannuation Specialist Self-Managed Superannuation Association; author, Super Splitting for Family Lawyers, Certus Law
Professional Skills
12.15pm to 1.15pm: How to Finalise a Family Law Matter: Which Documents and When? How to Give Binding Effect to the Agreement that has been Reached
- Consent Orders vs Financial Agreements (property)
- Parenting Plans vs Consent Orders (parenting)
Presented by Jeremy Culshaw, Chief Executive Officer, Culshaw Miller Lawyers; Recommended Family & Divorce Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2018
Venue
Stamford Plaza Adelaide Hotel
Level 2, 150 North Terrace
Adelaide 5000
SA
Australia