Collaborative Lawyers at HOCW - Congratulations Andrew

HOCW congratulates Andrew O'Sullivan-Newbold, Associate Family Lawyer, on successfully completing an Interdisciplinary Collaborative Practice Training course. Andrew joins Emmalaura Messer, Principal Family Lawyer, as a collaboratively trained family law lawyer. 

Collaborative Law is a progressive family law process that assists parties to resolve their matter in an amicable and future-focused way. The starting point of Collaborative Law process is to “opt out” of court proceedings. Instead, parties agree to work together in a respectful and transparent way to resolve their family law matters by having open communication and taking a goal-focused rather than positional approach.

Going through a separation or divorce is already one of the most difficult times that people will face in their life and can cause a great deal of stress and anxiety for those involved.  Our family lawyers are pleased to be able to offer our clients the Collaborative Law option of a non-adversarial, holistic approach to family law that focuses on parties reaching outcomes that are good for the whole family unit.  In order to take advantage of this process it's important to realise that both parties will need to engage with separate Collaborative Lawyers.  

Our family lawyers Emmalaura Messer and Andrew O’Sullivan-Newbold are both experienced lawyers who have advanced training in Collaborative Law. To find out whether your family law matter is suitable for the Collaborative Law process, please contact us on 03 9629 7411 for an initial consultation.