Lauren Chalmers
Associate
Lauren is an Associate with well-rounded experience and a versatile background across all areas of Wills and Estates and Family Law.
Whether crafting comprehensive estate plans, resolving estate disputes, managing deceased estates, or advocating for clients in property settlement and children’s matters, Lauren understands her client’s unique circumstances and delivers clear and straightforward advice.
Lauren’s innate compassion and kindness infuses into her interactions with our client’s and ensures they feel supported through their matter. She guides our clients through various avenues of dispute resolution, with a keen understanding that some instances call for litigation.
When that’s the case, Lauren is well versed in strategically using the court system to bring matters to a head.
Education & Training
- Bachelor of Laws (LLB)
- Bachelor of Commerce (Marketing)
- Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice
Wills & Estates Experience
- Estate planning for individuals and tailored testamentary documents
- Preparing Testamentary Trust, complex and standard Wills, Enduring Powers of Attorney and Advance Care Directives
- Preparing complex and simple probate applications and letters of administration
- Administration of complex and simple deceased estates including intestate estates
- Negotiating a wide range of estate disputes including acting for beneficiaries and preparing Deeds of Family Arrangement
- Representing executors in estate litigation
- Advising on inheritance (family provision) claims
- Defending estates against inheritance (family provision) claims and also acting for claimants in challenges against estates for further provision
- Representing elders suffering from financial abuse under a power of attorney
- Challenging superannuation death benefit payments
Family Law Experience
- Advising and representing De facto couples
- Conducting and successfully negotiating complex property settlements
- Property settlements involving businesses and farming
- Advising and successfully negotiating children’s matters
- Advising and successfully negotiating grandparent’s rights
- Proceedings under the Hague Convention on International Relocation
- National relocation matters
- Recovery orders
- Preparing for and representing parties in their divorce hearings
- Providing assistance to parties regarding child support issues
- Spousal maintenance matters
- Binding Financial Agreements
- Mediation
- Consent Orders
- Parenting Plans & Parenting Orders
- Contravention and enforcement applications
Professional Associations
- Member of the Law Society of South Australia.
- Member of the Family Law Section of the Law Council of Australia
- Member of the Golden Key International Honour Society
Practice Areas
- Wills and Estates
- Estate planning
- Estate Administration
- Probate and Letters of Administration
- Deed of Family Arrangement
- Contested Estates
- Estate Disputes and Litigation
- Elder Abuse
- Family Law
- Divorce
- Parenting Matters
- Child Support
- De Facto Relationships
- Property Settlement
- Grandparent’s Rights
- International Relocation (Hague Convention)
- Spousal Maintenance
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