Jeremy commenced working with Marks & Sands as a Partner in 1994.

Jeremy also has extensive experience in private client work in South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales before moving to Western Australia in 1993.

Jeremy has fulfilled a number of management roles within the Marks & Sands, and currently heads the Family Law group in Perth.

Jeremy is a previous Western Australian Board member of the Hunt & Hunt Legal Group.

Jeremy has over 21 years experience practicing in the area of Family law and is an Accredited Family Law Specialist. He provides legal advice on all aspects of Family law including Divorce, Property Settlements, International child relocation and Hague Convention matters, Domestic partnerships and Defacto relationships, Binding financial agreements, and Parenting arrangements.

Jeremy also specialises in property transactions in the Family Court jurisdiction and as a consequence has particular experience in bankruptcy and creditor protection.

Jeremy has extensive experience in the mediation, negotiation, and if necessary litigation of complex property and commercial family law matters. He has a particular interest in the relationship between the Corporations Code and the protection of third party interests in the Family Law jurisdiction.

Following extensive amendments to the Family Law Act in July 2006 Jeremy was successful in establishing the legal call centre component of the Family Relationship Advice Line; an initiative of the Commonwealth Attorney General department.

Jeremy is heavily involved in the general Family Law community and takes an active interest in the promotion of greater awareness of Family Law in the community at large, including Collaborative practice. Jeremy has played a key role in chairing the Organising Committee of the 2006 National Family Law Conference, Western Australia.

• Family Law Property Settlements
• Transactional Banking
• Insolvency aspects of property disputes

• Vice President, Family Law Practitioners Association of Western Australia
• Chair, Organising Committee, 2006 National Family Law Conference, Western Australia
• Law Council
• Family Law Accreditation Committee, Law Society of Western Australia
• Law Society of Western Australia
• Collaborative Professionals Western Australia

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Peter has fulfilled a number of management roles within Marks & Sands and heads the Estate Planning group in Perth.

Peter is a previous Western Australian Board member of the Hunt & Hunt Legal Group.

Peter has over 30 years experience practicing in the areas of Wills, Probate and Estate Planning. He provides legal advice to clients on business related issues; wills & probate, trusts, estates and estate planning; partnerships and disputes; contracts and criminal law.

As wells as his Wills Probate and Estate Planning work, Peter also provides regular advice to and appears on behalf many Real Estate Agents, particularly in respect of matters before the Real Estate and Business Agents Supervisory Board.

Peter has also been heavily involved in the rural and farming industry, both as a farmer and then as a lawyer, initially in Katanning and now through the Merredin office of Marks & Sands. As part of this Peter regularly advises farming clients on all aspects of their Estate Planning needs, including Wills and Family Trusts. Peter also has a very strong criminal practice.

Peter is the Hononoury Solicitor for the Motor Neurone Disease Association of Western Australia.

• Commercial Advice to business
• Wills, Trust and Estates
• Estate Planning
• Challenging Wills
• Advising Farmers
• Criminal Law
• Partnerships and Partnership Disputes
• Acting as Counsel in Criminal Trials and matters before Tribunals
• Contracts
• Mediation
• Transactional Banking
• Insolvency aspects of property disputes

• Law Society of Western Australia
• Criminal Lawyers Association
• Lawyers Engaged in Alternative Dispute Resolution (LEADR)
• Hononoury Solicitor for the Motor Neurone Disease Association of Western Australia

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Darren commenced working with Marks & Sands in 1997

Darren has fulfilled a number of management roles within Marks & Sands and currently heads the Property and Commercial group, in Perth.

Darren is the Western Australian Board member of the Hunt & Hunt Legal Group.

Darren is a property and commercial lawyer who acts for a broad range of clients.

Darren’s practice includes advising on:

• Commercial leasing;
• the sale and purchase of commercial and residential property;
• the sale and purchase of businesses, encompassing leasing and licensing issues;
• Commercial agreements;
• General corporate advice in relation to obligations and liabilities of company directors;
• Finance related issues in particular in respect of small commercial and private lenders.

Darren also has over 10 years experience practicing in the area of commercial litigation and general dispute resolution, including insolvency. He provides legal advice to clients on all aspects of liquidations and company administration, statutory demand procedures, recoveries on behalf of creditors and individuals, trade practices legislation, general litigation and dispute resolution.

He presented on the interaction between leases and caveats at the WA Property Law and Conveyancing Master Class for Lexis Nexus in 2006.

• Acting for and advising Liquidators, Administrators and Receiver Managers
• Advising private clients facing liquidation or companies at risk of being wound up including all aspects of Statutory Demand procedure.
• Recoveries on behalf of creditors and individuals
• Trade Practices Legislation
• General litigation and dispute resolution

• Law Society of Western Australia
• Property Council of Australia

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Elizabeth commenced working with Marks & Sands as a Consultant in Feb 1998.

Prior to joining our firm, Elizabeth held the role of Partner with Minter Ellison Lawyers.

Elizabeth has fulfilled a number of management roles within Marks & Sands, including as a former Partner.

Elizabeth has over 30 years experience practicing in the areas of Wills, Probate and Estate Planning law. She also provides legal advice to clients on all aspects of negotiation and drafting of complex commercial agreements, all forms of Property transactions including Conveyancing, Wills and Probate applications and general Estate Administration.

Elizabeth is considered amongst Perth lawyers an authority on complex Probate matters; and is the Consulting Editor to Butterworth’s Wills, Probate and Administration Services in Western Australia.

She frequently presents at Law Society of Western Australia Seminars; and lectures on Wills and Estates to final year students at the University of Western Australia and Murdoch University.

Elizabeth acts for a number of Financial Planners and Accountants, advising their clients on Estate Planning.

• Negotiating and drafting complex commercial agreements
• All forms of conveyancing
• All forms of property transactions
• Wills and Probate applications
• General Estate administration

• Director and Treasurer, Australian Women Lawyers
• Legal committee member Princess Margaret Hospital for Children Ethics Committee
• Committee Member, Law Society of Western Australia:
• Taxation Committee
• Public Purposes Trust Investment Committee
• Quality Practice Standard Committee
• Joint Women Lawyers/Law Society Committee
• Women Lawyers of Western Australia
• Former Pro-Chancellor of Curtin University
• Previous President of the Law Society of Western Australia

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Kym commenced working with Marks & Sands as a family lawyer in August 2002.

Prior to joining Marks & Sands, Kym practised as a family lawyer in Melbourne, Victoria.

Kym is a Partner in the Family Law group, Perth, working generally on property settlement and children's matters.

Kym is an Accredited Family Law Specialist and works exclusively in the area of family law. She has provided legal advice, primary dispute resolution and Family Court representation to clients in all aspects of family law including:

• Divorce;
• Property Settlements;
• International child relocation and Hague Convention matters;
• Domestic partnerships and Defacto relationships;
• Binding financial agreements;
• Parenting arrangements; and
• Surrogacy.

Kym has presented in-house seminars on family law matters for other industries including financial planners and mortgage brokers. She has presented papers on the Hague Child Abduction Convention and more recently Surrogacy at the "Law on the Lounge" Family Law Conference in Bali.

Kym has an interest in international matters and has acted for clients based in countries including the USA, Canada, the UK, Switzerland, Italy, Bahrain, the UAE, South Africa, Indonesia and Thailand.

Kym also practises as a Collaborative Lawyer.

• Family Law

• Member, Law Society of Western Australia
• Member, Family Law Practitioners” Association WA
• Member, Women Lawyers of Western Australia
• Member Collaborative Professionals WA
• Former Vice President, Family Law Practitioners’ Association WA

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Catherine commenced working with Marks & Sands as a Family lawyer in July 2001.

Catherine is a Partner in the Family Law group, Perth, working on all aspects of property settlement and children’s welfare matters. In addition to her family law practice, Catherine also has experience in administrative law.

Catherine provides legal advice to clients and Court representation in all aspects of family law, including:

• Divorce
• Property Settlements
• Defacto property disputes
• Child welfare matters and parenting arrangements
• Binding Financial Agreements
• Child support

Catherine has presented seminars to financial planners and mortgage brokers on the capital gains tax consequences of property transfers in family law matters.

Catherine has an interest in the particular family law issues experienced by those in the farming industry and has represented a number of farming clients in litigation in the Family Court of Western Australia.

• Family Law

• Law Society of Western Australia
• Family Law Practitioners' Association
• Women Lawyers of Western Australia

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David is a Partner in the Family Law group in Perth.

David commenced with Marks & Sands in March 2006. Prior to joining the firm David was engaged in the financial, commercial, mining and pastoral industries.

David’s Family Law practice primarily involves property disputes in the Family Court of Western Australia where the property of the parties include corporate structures, farming estates, businesses, family and unit trusts, self-managed superannuation funds and other substantial commercial issues.

Notwithstanding the majority of his practice stems from larger property disputes, David also accepts instructions and acts as a barrister and solicitor in child related matters. David has substantial litigation experience in child related matters to decide arrangements that best serve the interests of children.

David’s legal experience is not limited to Family Law and he continues to advise and appear for select clients as Counsel in administrative, commercial, criminal and quasi-criminal jurisdictions.

This breadth of experience confirms David’s understanding of the issues associated with the breakdown of family relationships and the restructuring of people’s lives when faced with issues of property division, arrangements for children, spousal maintenance, child support, estate planning and asset restructuring.

David has a commitment to alternate dispute resolution where this may assist in the appropriate resolution of disagreements irrespective if the disagreement relates to children’s matters or property distribution.

David has been extensively involved in the commercial, financial, mining and pastoral industries and continues to be involved in these areas through his corporate affiliations.

• Family Law
• Advising clients and appearing as Counsel in respect of distribution of property after separation for married and defacto couples
• Drafting and advising clients in respect of binding financial agreements
• Advising clients and appearing as Counsel in respect of arrangements for children after separation
• Divorce for married couples
• Criminal Law (including violence restraining orders for select clients)
• Commercial Law (for select clients)
• Administrative Law (for select clients)

• Member of the Law Society of Western Australia
• Member of the Family Law Practitioners' Association

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Belinda commenced working with Marks & Sands as a Solicitor in January 2007.

Prior to joining our firm, Belinda has gained valuable experience in the areas of commercial law, insolvency law and corporate and commercial litigation with two reputable Perth firms. She completed articles with a well-respected Barrister, and has worked for nine months in personal injury law and workers compensation law.

Belinda is part of the Commercial and Estate Planning groups in Perth.

Belinda's practice includes all manner of commercial, corporate issues, as well as matters pertaining to Estate Planning, such as the drafting of wills and probate applications. It also includes estate matters generally including claims under the Inheritance (Family & Dependents Provisions) Act.

• Commercial and Estate Planning

• Law Society of Western Australia

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Marcus commenced working with Marks & Sands as a Solicitor in January 2009.

Marcus is part of the Commercial and Property group in Perth practising in the area of property, banking and finance and commercial law.

Prior to joining our firm, Marcus had been practising for 4 years with a prominent property law firm in Perth and spent the past 12 months working in property development. Marcus has advised several national property developers and provides legal advice in relation to the acquisition and subdivision of land, the strata titling of residential and commercial property, contractual documentation, joint venture agreements, put and call options and due diligence enquiries.

As well as his property development experience, Marcus's practice also includes sales and purchase of businesses, all aspects of commercial, retail and rural leasing and the preparation and negotiation of security documentation for both lenders and borrowers.

• Property development advice – acquisition, subdivision, strata titles, joint venture agreements;
• Commercial, retail and rural leasing;
• Sale and purchase of rural, residential and commercial property;
• Sale and purchase of businesses;
• Mortgage funding and security documentation.

• Law Society of Western Australia

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Hayley commenced working for Marks & Sands in August 2008.

Hayley was admitted to the Supreme Court of Western Australia after previously being admitted to the High Court in Auckland, New Zealand.

Hayley is part of the Family Law group in Perth.

Hayley provides legal advice on all aspects of financial proceedings as well as children’s matters, including:

• Divorce;
• Property settlements;
• Defacto relationships and issues;
• Child welfare matters;
• Parenting arrangements; and
• Binding financial agreements.

• Family Law

• Law Society of Western Australia
• Family Law Practitioners' Association
• Women Lawyers of Western Australia

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Saskia commenced working for Marks & Sands in February 2009.

Saskia graduated from the University of Western Australia in 2006 with a Bachelor of Laws Degree.

In 2007 she completed the New South Wales College of Law Course and on the 16th May 2008 she was admitted to practice law at the Supreme Court of New South Wales.

In 2008 Saskia moved to the United Kingdom. During her time in the UK Saskia worked as a paralegal for both Herbert Smith and the Financial Services Authority (UK).

Whilst working at these firms Saskia gained experience in large-scale corporate litigation matters as well as in corporate regulation and enforcement.

Saskia also has experience in Family Law and has worked on several large-scale property disputes.

Saskia currently handles Commercial and Civil Litigation matters within the firm.

Her experience in the firm’s Commercial division includes:

• Commercial Leases and Acquisitions;
• Commercial Contracts;
• Employment Contracts.

Saskia also handles our Civil Litigation matters including:

• Debt Recovery matters;
• Personal Injury cases.

• Commercial and Civil Litigation

• Law Society of Western Australia

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Mark commenced working with Marks & Sands as a solicitor in March 2009.

Prior to joining our firm Mark completed his articles at the Legal Aid Commission of Western Australia and gained valuable experience in the areas of Family Law, Child Welfare, Criminal Law and Traffic Law.

Mark is part of the Family Law group.

He also has an interest in the areas of General Dispute Resolution, Criminal Law and Traffic Law.

Mark provides legal advice to clients on all aspects of:

• divorce;
• property settlement;
• children’s issues;
• obligation and rights stemming from de facto relationships and restraining orders.

Mark has travelled extensively and participates in a wide variety of community groups and activities.

• Family Law
• Criminal and Traffic Law

• Law Society of Western Australia
• Family Law Practitioners' Association

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Jason commenced working with Marks & Sands as Financial Manager in September 2000.

Prior to joining our firm, Jason held the role of Practice Manager with Murfett & Co.

Jason is responsible for all aspects of the firm's accounting, which includes both the general and accounting sides of the practice.

Jason regularly provides training to staff on internal procedure and office systems.

Jason is a qualified Real Estate Sales Representative and Property Manager.

He is also Editor of WRXPress Magazine.

• Past Treasurer and Committee member, Impreza WRX Owners Club of Western Australia

e jason.davies@marksandsands.com.au

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