ONE FAMILY ONE LAWYER
If things are ok
let's keep them that way
In our experience, when facing a relationship breakdown, people want good, reliable, unbiased information. They want to know how the law works but they also want to know that they can move on quickly and as seamlessly as possible.
They don’t want to know how they can get more – they generally want to know what is reasonable to expect or accept.
A traditional legal process is instinctively adversarial, which often creates new conflict. This is not the time to be
picking a new fight with your ex. It’s time to focus on what you both need to move on as peacefully and as efficiently
as possible.
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Many of the couples suited to this process have tried to resolve their separation themselves and often actively tried to avoid lawyers. They don’t want their separation to take a long time, they don’t want lawyers in their lives, they don’t want to lose control over decisions that affect them and their children.
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One Family One Lawyer is an Australian first modelled on a process used in the United Kingdom and Canada. In Australia this process is unique to BrightSide, and allows your family to hire one lawyer to work with both of you in the interests of the whole family.
Bright Side has developed a 7-step process covering all the most common aspects a family will face when a couple separates – financial and parenting arrangements, child support, divorce and future estate planning.
Your One Family Lawyer works jointly with you to provide neutral legal advice in relation to the whole family. Through mutual information exchange and joint meetings the process provides a forum for clear disclosure and transparent negotiation taking into account the best interests of everyone in the family alongside impartial legal advice. Then with a collaborative mindset, family dispute resolution principles and legal guidelines, a jointly designed separation agreement can be drafted into legally binding court orders and parenting plans.
Your family is charged a fixed fee, paid from joint funds into a joint trust account. The family pays for the agreement and the cost comes from their combined property pool.