LexisNexis Skills Series: Practising Family Law - 2nd Edition

Author: Tom Altobelli; Ian Serisier
Publisher: LexisNexis Australia
ISBN: 9780409326413
Published In: June 2009
Format: Paperback , 252 pages
Jurisdiction: Australia ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

New Edition is available now !

Description
Contents
Author

Details

A practical guide to the day-to-day practice of family law in Australia.

Practising Family Law offers step-by-step guidance on the full range of essential skills, including the taking of instruction, drafting, case preparation and presentation, advocacy and negotiation. In each case these skills are presented within the context of family law. The authors also consider skills pertinent to the family law context such as interviewing emotional clients and clients of a non-English speaking background.

This book is an ideal resource for law students, solicitors, and those with a particular interest in this area.

Important Features:

· Authors are recognised experts in the field
· Questions, answers, case studies and forms support a practical approach
· Self contained chapters are easily utilised for those who need specific information quickly

1. Taking instructions and giving advice in family law matters
2. Interviewing the family law client
3. Drafting orders in family law matters
4. The procedural hearing in a Family Law Court
5. Court Events
6. Drafting affidavits in family law matters
7. Preparing for a hearing in a Family Law Court
8. Urgent family law applications
9. Non-disclosure in family law matters
10. Primary dispute resolution in family law
11. Family law in courts of summary jurisdiction
12. Evidence and advocacy in family law
13. Negotiation in family law matters
14. The unrepresented litigant in family law
15. The ethics of family law practice

Tom Altobelli is a Federal Magistrate at the Federal Magistrates Court of Australia. FM Altobelli was previously Associate Professor at the School of Law, University of Western Sydney and has published widely in the area of family law. He is an accredited specialist in family law, children's law, and mediation with over 25 years experience in the field.

Ian Serisier is Special Counsel at SWAAB Attorneys. He spent more than 30 years as a member of the New South Wales Bar where his practice was almost exclusively family law and de facto relationship disputes. He is a qualified family law mediator and arbitrator and a member of the College of Law Advisory Panel.