Gain insights and practical guidance to ensure you’re up to date on the latest cases and strategies on everything in relation to assessing contributions, distributions, addbacks, and hidden tax liabilities when dividing up the pool of assets in your property matters and financial settlements, from a stellar line-up of leading family law practitioners. Stay for the afternoon and gain all your CPD compulsory core units.

Presenters

Kay Feeney, Director, Feeney Family Lawyers
Kay has been an expert in family law for more than 35 years. She was admitted as a solicitor in 1985 and has been the director of Feeney Family Law since 2011. Kay is an accredited Family Law Specialist. She combines her Family Law expertise with an understanding of her clients’ issues and expectations to promote a safe, calm, and respectful rapport. She possesses a high level of legal technical competency and holds a clear tenacity of purpose. She ensures that her clients feel supported and are not vulnerable to any imbalances of power. Kay boasts extensive litigation experience with particular interest in mediation, collaboration, and arbitration. She is a Nationally Accredited Mediator and Arbitrator for family law matters and a qualified Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner. Her wisdom and experience as a mediator are highly requested. She has experience in property matters involving high value and working in complex corporate structures. She is also an expert across a range of other family matters, including parenting disputes complicated by parental deficits and special needs children. She also has vast experience as an Independent Children’s Lawyer. Kay comes recommended in the Doyle’s Guide of Leading Family & Divorce Lawyers in Brisbane for 2022. She has presented “How to limit conflict in Family Law matters” at two US conferences and presented at two European conferences “Family Lawyers & Legal Professional Privilege” and “Property Settlements & Spouse Maintenance for the Elderly”.


Genevieve Dee, Partner, Lander & Rogers
Accredited Family Law Specialist Genevieve Dee is a partner at Lander and Rogers and has worked exclusively in family law and has fifteen years’ experience. Genevieve specialises in all aspects of family law, including parenting and property matters, financial agreements, spousal maintenance and child support issues. Doyle’s Guide 2022 has recognised Genevieve as a Pre-eminent Family & Divorce Lawyer, Leading Parenting & Children’s Matters Lawyer and Recommended Complex and High-Value Property Matters Lawyer in Brisbane. In addition, Genevieve has been named as recommended Family & Divorce Lawyer in the Doyle’s Guide 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 national listings.


Mr. Guy Waterman, Barrister, Brisbane Chambers
Guy Waterman was admitted as a Solicitor and practised extensively in the area of De Facto and Family Law and as a Mediator prior to being called to the Bar in 1993. Guy has continued to practice in the Family Law/De Facto areas as a Barrister and Mediator and during this time and has presented at seminars dealing with Family Law & Practice including: Disclosure, compliance with Orders, Making the most of financial experts in financial matters in conjunction with Joe Box, forensic accountant and Greg Jorgenson, registered valuer at BAQ, Cost - Orders, Offer and Risks, How to Deal with a Client Raising That The Solicitor For The Other Party Has A Conflict Of Interest And Should Be Restrained From Acting and Family Law Legislative Reform and Case Update.


Dr Jemima Petch, PhD (Clinical Psychology), MAPS Head of Practice, Relationships Australia
Dr Jemima Petch is the Head of Research at Relationships Australia Queensland (RAQ), adjunct researcher at the University of Queensland and a clinical psychologist. Jemima has a particular interest in promoting healthy couple relationships through relationship education and therapy, measuring and enhancing treatment effectiveness in individual, couples and family counselling, and leading organisational change to support the adoption of evidence-based practice and assessment. Prior to working at Relationships Australia QLD Jemima was employed at both Griffith University and the University of Queensland as Project Director, testing the impact of innovative psychological interventions on couple and individual outcomes.


Alison Ross, Partner, HopgoodGanim Lawyers
Alison Ross specialises in complex property matters and other financial matters arising from relationship breakdowns. She has worked exclusively in family law since 1996 and has extensive experience in both matrimonial and de facto relationship law. Alison's expertise includes advising on international family law matters, both financial matters and those relating to children, including relocation and child abduction. An Accredited Family Law Specialist, Alison is the immediate past Chair of the Queensland Law Society's Family Law Committee. She is a member of the Queensland Law Society Continuing Professional Development Committee. She is also a member of the Family Law Practitioners' Association, the Law Council of Australia's Family Law Section, the Child Protection Practitioners' Association of Queensland and Queensland Collaborative Law. Alison has been ranked a leading lawyer in Doyles Guide to Leading Family and Divorce Lawyers - Brisbane since 2012.


Stacey Percival, Senior Associate, HopgoodGanim Lawyers
Stacey is a Senior Associate in the HopgoodGanim Family and Relationship Law practice and acts for families and private individuals in the preparation of financial agreements, negotiation of parenting, spousal maintenance, property settlements and litigation. Stacey has a particular interest in the treatment of complex entity structures on property settlement. Having previously worked in HopgoodGanim’s Private Enterprise practice, Stacey draws on her unique understanding of her clients’ complex businesses and structures in their family law matters.


Jane FitzGerald, Barrister, French Quarter Chambers
Jane FitzGerald has been a barrister at the private Bar in Queensland since 2009. Prior to coming to the Bar, she was admitted as a solicitor for 10 years specialising in litigation. She has a commercial practice at the Bar which encompasses contract, corporate, property, medical negligence, personal injury, judicial review, insurance and building and construction disputes. In addition to her practice as a barrister, Jane also teaches and provides communication consulting services both in Australia and overseas. She consults to Queensland Bar Practice Course, the College of Law, the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (USA) and other firms, groups and individuals offering communications advice and workshops. She completed teacher training with NITA in 2009 and achieved her Advocate and Master Advocate Designation from NITA in 2011. In essence, Jane provides consulting services to lawyers on how to deliver an argument, bringing her experience as a barrister but also as a former professional actor when working with her clients.


Greg Shoebridge, Barrister, Inns of Court
Greg Shoebridge has been at the private bar in Queensland since December 2008. He practises in family and succession law. Prior to 2008, he was partner of the firm Simonidis Shoebridge Lawyers. As a solicitor, Greg practised in family law exclusively for over 14 years, and was an Accredited Family Law Specialist. Greg has been the editor in chief of the journal, Current Family Law and the family law editor of the journal "Queensland Lawyer". He holds National accreditation as a mediator, and is a Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner for family law matters. Greg has been a member of the executive of the Family Law Practitioners Association of Queensland, and of both the Family Law Committee and the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committees of the Queensland Law Society. Greg has Bachelor degrees in accountancy and law, and a masters degree in law. He has presented numerous papers at various seminars over past years and has been published in a number of journals including the Australian Family Law Journal.


Wendy Miller, Special Counsel, Damien Greer Lawyers
Wendy Miller has been an accredited specialist in family law since 2001. She has practised solely in family law since 1996. Wendy has had experience across the whole spectrum of family law but her main practice now is in financial matters. One of her goals is to develop a practice in family law that specializes in tax and estate and business succession planning issues. Specialties include: taxation issues arising in family law situations.


Dr Megan Morris, Psychologist, Megan Morris Psychology
Dr Megan Morris is a registered psychologist (MAPS), originally from Brisbane and has spent more than 10 years residing overseas in Thailand and Vanuatu where she worked in voluntary and non- voluntary roles in psychological support and education. On her return to Australia in 2006, Megan became an accredited Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner, and worked with separated families providing family mediation for resolving separated parents disputes in parenting and financial matters. She also worked for the federal government funded Family Relationship Centers, Relationships Australia Queensland (RAQ) and the National Telephone Dispute Resolution Service providing mediation. From 2010, Megan was the coordinator/manager of the Australian research project, “Outcomes for Separated Families” a collaborative project conducted by The University of Queensland (School of Psychology) in collaboration with RAQ and funded by the Australian Research Council. In 2016 Megan completed her PhD from the University of Queensland with her research focused on understanding separated families in conflict and measuring their mediation outcomes. In 2010, she began writing family reports and providing social assessments for families involved in family court, children’s court and federal circuit court matters. She is an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Queensland, a full member of the Australian Psychological Society, the Queensland Child Protection Practitioners Association, and the Family Law Practitioners Association and is interested in improving the lifestyle of members of high conflict families and in particular the children of high conflict parenting disputes. Megan is a private consultant based in Brisbane who provides psychological support to individuals and families, mediation for family issues, and family reports and assessments for family law matters.