Cooper Family Law – a focus on getting the right resolution for you and your family.

For your peace of mind, we offer fixed and capped price legal fees.  This ensures you stay in control.

Concerned about lawyers’ hourly fees?  Our fee structure is fairer.

Meet Maisie, a four year old girl coping with her parents’ separation, in a delightful new children’s book written by Sarah Cooper and illustrated by the renowned Tamsin Ainslie. Copies of Maisie go on sale for from 11 September 2016 for $10 at our office in Nundah, while stocks last. Alternatively, you can order copies by calling us on 07 3266 3454 or emailing us at maddie@cooperfamilylaw.net

We appreciate the difficult and painful circumstances that attach to parenting disputes. It is important to understand that there is no such thing as a presumption of equal time or equal parenting. Each child is unique. For that reason parenting orders must therefore be unique. It is important to get the right advice about your unique circumstances.

Family law has become less about resolving disputes between family members and more about avoiding them in the first place. Just like a will, or a commercial contract, there are range of agreements for various matters that can take the tension and dispute out of family law matters and produce quick, efficient and, importantly, low-cost resolutions. We can assist with agreements for parenting, property settlements (formerly known as pre-nuptial agreements), maintenance, child support, even ultruistic surrogacy. All of these agreements require the advices of a legal practitioner before they are binding.

We strongly encourage all persons over 21 to have a will and execute an enduring power of attorney in favour of a trusted family member. Nobody wants to die or be unable to take care of their own affairs, but we all understand those documents to be very important. In the same way, we also encourage any couple about to commence cohabitation to consider a range of agreements that might cover the unwanted termination of that relationship.