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South East Lawyers began servicing clients in Berwick in 2005, their knowledgeable, enthusiastic and approachable team quickly built a following of wills, estates, business and commercial clients as well as a strong foundation in family law. It just made sense to bring these two practices together! Today these practices have merged to provide the benefit of their breadth of experience to clients of both practices in Berwick and the wider areas of Casey and Cardinia.
Our team prides itself on its up to date professional knowledge, its practical approach to solving legal problems and its ability to incisively steer our clients through complex legal matters. We are proudly part of the Berwick community, if you're looking for answers to legal questions, try Bona Fide Lawyers today.
We provide a wide range of service to our clients. Our services include:
Commercial & Business Law:
Whether your business is large or small, every business comes across issues that require legal advice. Often taking advice in a timely manner can prevent costly mistakes down the track. In particular, our lawyers can help with: setting up a business, buying or selling a business, agreements, trusts, companies and asset protection structures, leasing (whether you are the landlord or the tenant), licences, franchises or debt collection.
Family Law:
Nobody wants to have problems with relationship breakdowns, or issues around contact with their children, but sometimes these things are inevitable. Our caring family lawyers will draw on their wealth of experience to help you navigate the complicated issues around children's Issues, property settlements, child support, domestic partners, pre-nuptial or binding financial agreements or spousal maintenance.
Debt Collection:
Particularly for small businesses, collecting outstanding accounts can be a significant factor in their success or failure. Having access to a cost effective service for collecting these accounts is an important safe guard to your success. Bona Fide Lawyers have a strong history of successful collections of outstanding debts. Our collection services are cost effective and we are happy to assist with business or personal debts. We are often able to find debtors that have disappeared, and pride ourselves on successful and timely recovery.
Conveyancing & Property:
Buying a house for most people is the single most significant financial transaction that we engage in during our lifetime. It makes sense to ensure that the service provider assisting you with that transaction is knowledgeable, accessible and cost effective. We make dealing with property easy and our professional staff are there to guide you at each step of the way. Whether it's buying your first home, selling an investment property or purchasing a sizeable commercial property, our lawyers can help you.
Lease:
Commonly parties enter into leases without availing themselves of legal advice. Routinely this results in entering a lease without understanding the pitfalls and problems that these documents can cause. As a tenant, knowing your rights can save you significant financial hardship in your business venture. As a landlord, your property is a valuable asset that warrants suitable care and protection. Regardless of which side of the leasing transaction you find yourself on, failing to understand your obligations and comply with the relevant legislation can mean loss of revenues or penalties. It pays to have legal advice before you begin.
Litigation, Wills & Estates:
We commonly hear that clients don't want to end up in a costly and time consuming legal dispute in court. However, should this happen to you it's important that you have representation to preserve your rights, understand your obligations and steer you through this process. If you find yourself in a court proceeding, whether it’s a simple debt collection, a complicated contractual dispute or a personal dispute, having timely advice can be pivotal to your success.
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Bank Guarantees, Civil Litigation, Court Appearances, Deceased Estates, Estate Planning, Power of Attorney, Separations, Shareholders, Trade Practices, Trusts & Wills
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Child Support, Dissolutions, Divorce, Family Violence, Inheritance, Landlord Disputes, Sale of Business
Business Law, Commercial Litigation, Company Law, Contracts, De Facto, Employment Law, Estate Law, Family Law, Franchising Law, Insolvency, Insurance, Intellectual Property, Matrimonial, Probate, Probates and Estates, Succession, Trusts, Wills
Child Support, Buying a Business, Debt Collection, Companies, Challenging a Will, Domestic Partners, Family Trust, Court, Selling a Business, Commercial Law, Disputes, Leases, Buy Sell Agreements, Recovery of Money, Children, Contracts, Estate, Litigation, Discretionary Trust, Lawsuit, SMSF Property Purchase, Testamentary Trusts, Asset Protection, Trusts, Divorce, Power of Attorney, Family Law, Property Settlement, Pre-Nuptial Agreements, Trade Marks, Probate, Wills, Advice, BFA, Employment Law, Letters of Administration, Binding Financial Agreement
Everybody who owns assets or has children should have a will to make sure that the people who they want to benefit in the event of their demise are property provided for.
Even if the parties are in agreement it can be helpful to have a lawyer prepare orders and have them sealed by the court, to prevent future disputes.
You are allowed to represent yourself, but you may not be aware of the various rules, regulations and legislation that apply to your specific circumstances. It is wise to engage an expert lawyer if you are unsure.
