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Sally Nicholes
Partner
sally@nicholeslaw.com.au
Qualifications
- LLB/BA (University of Melbourne)
- Accredited Independant Children's Lawyer
- Accredited in Collaborative Law (LIV)
Background
Sally has practiced exclusively in family law for over 14 years during that time has developed a strong practice with substantive experience in all aspects of family law, acting for a range of corporate, institutional, and private clients.
Legal expertise
- International family law disputes
- Complex property settlements and litigation, including:
- dealing with complex corporate and trust structures,
- financial restructuring combining succession planning/estate planning with corporate restructure,
- same-sex relationship,parenting or financial agreements
- de facto cohabitation and pre-nuptial agreements
- complex parenting arrangements, including multi-party or high conflict disputes
- child support matters
- International child abduction
- Inter-country adoption
- International and domestic relocation disputes
- complex child welfare issues including special medical procedures such as gender reassignment or body tissue donations
- collaborative law
Relevant experience
- Extensive involvement in international child abduction matters, including rewarded with a Certificate of Appreciation by the United States National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children and the Australian Federal Police for her work on an operation that resulted in the successful location of an abducted child
- Extensive involvement in special medical procedure applications
- Handling out-of-court settlements of both financial and children's family law matters
- Handling contested hearing and appeal cases
Papers/Presentations
Extensive range of published articles and presentations to professional development seminars and special interest conference. See Publications for further information.
Professional memberships
- International Academy of the Collaborative Professionals
- Family Law Section of the LIV
- The LIV Children and Youth Issues Committee
- The LIV International Steering Committee
- The Family Law Section of the Law Council of Australia
- Board member and Deputy Chair of the World Congress on Family Law and Children’s Rights
- Deputy Chair of the Board of the Lasallian Foundation
awards and recognition
- 2010 Telstra Business Women’s Awards - Victorian Finalist, Commonwealth Bank Business Award
- 2010 Telstra Business Women’s Awards - Victorian Finalist, Nokia Business Innovation Award
additional languages spoken
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