Justine Clark

Justine Clark is an experienced and formidable family lawyer, and an accredited family law specialist.

Justine was trained by Michael Taussig QC, after working as a legal associate to His Honour Justice Hugh Fraser QC of the Queensland Court of Appeal, then to the Honourable Peter Young QC and the Honourable Paul Cronin of the Family Court of Australia, Melbourne. She is highly skilled in running complex family law matters, has an extensive and precise understanding of all aspects of family law and the operation of the Family Law Courts.

Justine provides considered, strategic, and commercial advice to her clients to negotiate, or litigate, the resolution of their family law matters. Her practice covers all manner of property settlements (modest to high net worth), financial agreements, child support, parenting disputes, de-facto and same-sex relationships / marriages, and advice in relation to parentage.

Her areas of expertise include: Financial matters (property settlements, maintenance and child support) Complex financial (property) / high net worth matters Financial (property) matters involving companies, trusts, SMSFs, businesses, taxation, disclosure and valuation issues Binding Financial Agreements (de facto cohabitation agreements, pre-nuptial agreements and post-nuptial agreements) Child Support Agreements Parenting disputes and parentage matters (adoption, surrogacy and same sex and LGBTI families) International relocation (parenting) matters Justine is a member of the Family Law Section of the Law Council of Australia, the Law Institute of Victoria (and is a member of the LIV Family Law Accreditation Committee, the Property and Maintenance Committee and the Courts Practice Committee), and the LGBT Family Law Institute.

She is a Law Institute of Victoria, Accredited Family Law Specialist. Justine presents frequently at Continuing Professional Education events for Family Lawyers on various family law topics, in particular on Binding Financial Agreements.