People

Madeleine Molnar

Family Lawyer

Maddie is a lawyer in the Sydney office of Lander & Rogers' Family & Relationship law team. She has been working in family law since 2018 and was admitted to practice as a solicitor in March 2022.

With experience across all areas of family law, Maddie has a particular interest in negotiating property settlements on behalf of her clients and drafting binding financial agreements for the protection of intergenerational wealth.

Maddie understands the challenges experienced by family law clients and their families, and provides reassuring, pragmatic advice as she guides them to the resolution of their matter.

Maddie is passionate about enabling widespread access to the family law system and is a volunteer at Redfern Legal Clinic.

Experience

Maddie's areas of expertise include:

  • complex property matters, particularly those involving corporate trusts and entity holdings
  • parenting matters involving complex and high-conflict disputes, international relocation and issues of risk, such as family violence, mental health, and drug and alcohol abuse
  • prenuptial binding financial agreements for the purposes of asset protection
  • child support matters
  • spousal maintenance matters
  • divorce applications.

Career highlights

Maddie's career highlights include:

  • successfully obtaining final parenting and property orders by consent when opposed to a self-represented litigant, enabling her client to have the primary care of the child and retain the entirety of an inheritance.

Client feedback

What Maddie's clients say:

"I have to say I am super impressed with Madeleine, she has pulled this together really quickly and has been so easy to deal with. Pretty impressive stuff. Thanks for putting her on this."

FAQs

Will I be liable to pay child support?

A person will be liable to pay child support if they are a parent of a child (biological, adoptive, or with the assistance of reproductive technology) and a resident of Australia.

The amount of child support payable is generally determined by a formula as per the Child Support (Assessment) Act 1985 (Cth), or by a private agreement between parties.

We recommend getting in contact with us to discuss your options.

What should I do if my former spouse is not following a court order?

If your former spouse is not following court orders without a reasonable excuse, there are various options available to you. Depending on whether your former spouse is in breach of parenting or property orders, there are various remedies available and potentially very serious consequences for your former spouse.

We recommend getting in contact with us early so that we can explain the options available to you.

View more commonly-asked questions about the legal aspects of family and relationship law in Australia here.