Loren Gulliver

Loren is a Senior Associate in our Melbourne office and has been working exclusively in the family law jurisdiction since her admission to practice in 2014.

Loren is an empathetic and understanding family lawyer. She recognises the immense challenges faced by individuals experiencing a relationship breakdown and how that can impact other facets of their lives. Loren provides her clients with measured, considered and tailored strategic advice when navigating the Australian family law system and strives to reduce their overwhelm so they can start planning for their new future.

Loren's first preference is to resolve disputes through negotiations or mediation for a controlled outcome. Where litigation is required, Loren is a skilled and determined advocate who works closely with her client's allied professionals and her network of experienced barristers to achieve the best possible results.

Her extensive family law experience extends to all areas including complex through to straightforward property settlements, children's matters, child support matters and family violence intervention order matters, assisting her client's both within Australia and internationally.

Experience

Loren's areas of expertise include:

• property and financial matters including property settlements and spousal maintenance
• parenting matters including negotiating appropriate parenting arrangements following separation and complex parenting issues
• drafting financial agreements
• de facto property matters
• child support matters
• international family law matters, including those involving Hague Convention proceedings
• intervention order and family violence matters
• enforcement, contravention and registration of child support agreements
• alternative dispute resolution.

Career highlights

Loren's career highlights include:

• obtaining sole parental responsibility orders on an undefended basis for the protection of children at risk
• acting in international parenting matters involving cross-jurisdictional disputes, including cases with countries that are and are not signatories to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction
• successfully defending a contentious application for a property settlement on the basis that the alleged relationship did not meet the required threshold of a de facto relationship under the Family Law Act 1975 (Cth)
• obtaining urgent interim property, spousal maintenance and child support departure orders
• advising and acting for high-net-worth clients with complex corporate and trust structures.