Kate Graham Family Lawyer Blog

It’s been 6 months since my inaugural blog. While there have been many things which have happened and about which I would be happy to write, I need to face up to my first 6 months as a social media participant. ‘Participate’ may be giving me too much credit. On the positive side, I have: […]

You are going through what is likely to be one of the most traumatic experiences in your life. The person you choose as your lawyer to help you through a separation can be a very important decision. How that person goes about the practice of law can help you to achieve an early or relatively […]

I spend a lot of my time discouraging my clients from choosing Court as an option to resolve their dispute. If clients have not previously been exposed to the judicial system, some see it as a way of accessing “justice”, pursuing matters of principle and provide themselves “right”. The reality of what happens  during the course […]

Most often when we are acting for the income earning spouse, we are concerned with “capping” the client’s liability for child support. Even though the agreed amount often consumes a large”chunk” of the payer’s, there is security in the knowledge that that the obligation has “topped out” even if the party’s income increases and that […]