Lauren is an Associate with well-rounded experience and a versatile background across the areas of Wills and Estates and Family Law.
Whether crafting comprehensive estate plans, resolving estate disputes, managing deceased estates, or advocating for clients in property settlement and children’s matters, Lauren understands her client’s unique circumstances and delivers clear and straightforward advice.
Lauren’s innate compassion and kindness infuses into her interactions with our client’s and ensures they feel supported through their matter. She guides our clients through various avenues of dispute resolution, with a keen understanding that some instances call for litigation. When that’s the case, Lauren is well versed in strategically using the court system to bring matters to a head.
Experience
- Estate planning for individuals and tailored testamentary documents
- Preparing Testamentary Trust and complex and standard Wills, Enduring Powers of Attorney and Advance Care Directives
- Preparing complex and simple probate applications and letters of administration
- Administration of complex and simple deceased estates including intestate estates
- Negotiating a wide range of estate disputes including acting for beneficiaries and preparing Deeds of Family Arrangement
- Representing executors in estate litigation
- Advising on inheritance (family provision) claims
- Defending estates against inheritance (family provision) claims and also acting for claimants in challenges against estates for further provision
- Representing elders suffering from financial abuse under a power of attorney
- Challenging superannuation death benefit payments
- Preparing divorce applications
- Advising and successfully negotiating property settlements
- Advising and successfully negotiating children’s matters
- Drafting Consent Orders and Binding Financial Agreements
- Appearing before the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia and preparing for and appearing at mediations, informal conferences, Family Dispute Resolution Conferences and Conciliation Conferences
Professional Associations
- Family Law Section of the Law Council of Australia
- Member of the Law Society of South Australia.
- Member of the Golden Key International Honour Society