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Agree With Me You have found your separation safety net! I help separating families move on to their next chapter with dignity, kindness and compassion.

I am a Nationally Accredited Mediator, Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner and Collaborative Law advocate.

☀️ How to Survive School Holidays with your Co-Parent Holidays can be a cause of stress and tension between co-parents....
28/09/2026

☀️ How to Survive School Holidays with your Co-Parent

Holidays can be a cause of stress and tension between co-parents. Here are some helpful tips while you attempt to negotiate the holidays!

1. Sort the calendar before the holidays start so you don't need negotiate each day as it comes.

2. Don't obsess over making everything exactly 50/50, quality time around your work schedules is more important.

3. Agree on changeovers properly to minimise miscommunication and frustration.

4. Tell each other about plans particularly trips, camps, sleepovers and family events. Keep in mind your agreements and parenting plans.

5. Don't compete over who's providing the “better” holiday.

6. Let the kids contact the other parent without making it weird.

7. Accept that the other house will do things differently, bedtime, screen time and McDonald's aren't necessarily emergencies. You can’t dictate the other household, unless there are genuine safety concerns, trust the other parent that they have the child’s best interest in mind.

8. Keep adult conflict away from the children.

9. Don't use children as messengers — “tell Dad…” is almost always better sent directly to Dad.

10. Pick your battles. Ask yourself whether something genuinely affects your child or simply isn't how you would do it.

11. Have a plan for disagreements focus on the children… FDR/mediation rather than 47 hostile text messages.

12. Remember the point of the holidays: your children should ideally finish them remembering what they did, not Mum and Dad fighting about the roster.

😀 And most importantly…. Enjoy your time with your children!

What does an FDRP actually do?FDRP stands for Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner. It’s a long title, but the purpose...
23/09/2026

What does an FDRP actually do?

FDRP stands for Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner. It’s a long title, but the purpose is straightforward: helping separated families talk through decisions about their children.

As an FDRP, I provide a structured space for parents to discuss issues such as living arrangements, time with each parent, holidays and communication. My role is to guide the conversation, help each person be heard and keep the focus on practical arrangements for the children. I don’t decide the outcome for them.

Before mediation begins, I speak with each person separately to assess whether family dispute resolution is appropriate. Safety matters, and mediation won’t be suitable in every situation.

If parents reach an agreement, it can be recorded in a parenting plan. If they don’t, an FDRP may be able to issue a section 60I certificate, which is generally needed before applying to court for parenting orders, unless an exemption applies.

For many families, the most valuable part of the process is having support to move from a difficult conversation towards a workable way forward.

💻 AI has and will continue to change the family law landscape.Increasingly, I am meeting with clients who have sought gu...
28/07/2026

💻 AI has and will continue to change the family law landscape.

Increasingly, I am meeting with clients who have sought guidance from AI to help them understand legal concepts, their rights and responsibilities, help them draft messages, prepare questions and explore their options.

The tool can be beneficial for persons seeking information in a cost effective manner. However, it should not be taken as legal advice due to extensive variables within each family and case scenario.

⚠️ AI also generally tends to "agree" to the person making the prompt so there is a risk there of AI telling a person what they want to hear rather than unbiased information.

My role of a mediator is to faciliate conversations between participants with the goal of achieving agreements relating to their co-parenting arrangements and/or financial and property interests.

💔 Importantly, mediations dealing with family law are, by nature, attract raw human emotions as the participants are negotiating separation and planning for the care of their children and/or their property interests.

During the mediation process, we ensure that we are aware of the background information, perspectives of each participant and their priorities as well as understand the dynamic between the participants. This is to aid us while we ensure that both party continues to feel safe and heard and to ensure that any agreements are not coerced or unreasonably obtained.

By creating a safe space to discuss disputes and issues, we encourage discussion on options and obstacles and reality check scenarios so that participants understand what arrangements will actually look like in the real world. This often assists in encouraging the parties to towards interest based negotiation.

Not only does this assist with reaching agreements, it can also improve communication channels between the participants, particularly where co-parenting requires ongoing child-focused contact.

❤️ AI is a fantastic tool to assist in gaining knowledge. Mediators can assist to resolve the human disputes by bringing the human authenticity into the room.

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