Isabella Burton

Isabella Burton is a lawyer in the Melbourne office of Lander & Rogers’ Family & Relationship Law team and has been working exclusively in family law since her admission to practice in December 2024. 

Isabella is dedicated to understanding each client’s unique situation and guiding them through the family law system with clear and pragmatic advice. Her approach is tailored to deliver a strategic solution - both from a family law and commercial perspective.

Isabella understands the importance of supporting clients through their family law matters so that they can move on with their lives. She strives for the expedient resolution of matters, aiming for negotiated settlements where possible. However, when necessary, she is a strong advocate for litigation, ensuring her clients' interests are robustly represented.

Isabella’s commercial mindset and problem-solving ability, her legal thinking, combined with a deeply empathetic and open-minded approach means she can connect with clients whilst maintaining focus in complex, and challenging situations. 

Alongside her private practice, Isabella is committed to access to justice. She provides pro bono support to inTouch and Djirra, assisting migrant and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women with their family law matters. Her client-first approach ensures every individual receives care and high-quality representation.

Isabella holds a Bachelor of Law (Honours) / Bachelor of Arts from Monash University and a Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice from the College of Law. 

Experience

Isabella's areas of expertise include:

• de facto and matrimonial property matters
• asset protection and binding financial agreements, prior to and during the relationship and/or marriage
• spousal maintenance
• child support matters including private child support agreements
• parenting disputes and arrangements for the care of children, including those involving allegations of abuse and family violence
• family violence and intervention orders
• divorce applications
• LGBTQIA+ property, financial and parenting matters
• litigation
• out-of-court settlements for parenting and property matters
• alternate dispute resolution (including mediation and judicial settlement conferences).

Client feedback

“To both of you, Isabella and Annebelle I just want to extend my heart felt thanks and gratitude for all the support, encouragement and help that you have offered me during the course of my divorce settlement.

I so appreciate that you showed so much respect for my concerns, no matter how simple or complex, obvious or nuanced! I felt seen and heard through this whole process.

Your professional advice just gave me so much confidence to stay the course, act and instruct out of my own integrity, honouring the process whilst also being realistic about outcomes.

Our phone calls were so valuable - they were like gold for me, those conversations really held me through this experience and I had complete confidence and trust in the advice given.

Isabella, I so appreciate how promptly you responded to all my requests, the letters and emails and all the small details did not go unnoticed.

You have both done a fantastic job!”

"Many thanks to you and your team for the wonderful work in finalising my property settlement and thank you also for the lovely gift of a bottle of champagne. With much joy I would like to share the unbelievable news that we opened that champagne last night to toast buying my new home. So very grateful for everyone’s help.”