ClearPath Navigating Family Law in Bathurst, New South Wales | Divorce & Family Lawyer

ClearPath Navigating Family Law

Locality: Bathurst, New South Wales

Phone: +61 448 983 503

Address: 46 Seymour Street 2795 Bathurst, NSW, Australia

Website: http://navigatingfl.com.au/

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25.01.2022 Statement from the Family Court of Australia in response to outcome of the trial of Leonard John Warwick who was known back in the day as the family court bomber. The Family Court of Australia acknowledges the guilty verdicts delivered today arising from multiple charges that relate to events that took place in the 1980s. These events constituted a very dark period in the history the Court and resulted in horrific and unnecessary deaths, attempted murder as well as the destr...uction of property. Throughout this period, the judges and staff of the Court demonstrated enormous courage by keeping the doors open and continuing to deal with the work required of them in what must have been frightening times. Hopefully, today’s outcome provides some relief and resolution for the victims’ families and for the many people who were impacted, including current and former judges and staff of the Family Court. RIP my greatest love, Hon David Tonge. As a sitting judge of the Family Court of Australia at the time, whose children and family were affected by these acts of terror, not to mention David's health, I know he would very pleased to hear that justice has been done at last and sadly on the soon to be 12th anniversary of his passing.

24.01.2022 Maya Angelou is right ... if you have fallen out of love and the time has come to focus on the solution and move on, and are looking for prompt, efficient and understanding family law dispute resolution support with a focus on a strategically negotiated settlement, we can help. Call 0448 983 503 to make an appointment. We serve the Sydney and Central West community and also offer mediation services separately from family law services.

24.01.2022 Decided to call it a day? At ClearPath Navigating Family Law we are committed to doing family law better. Where possible, you should seek legal advice before deciding the best option for your situation. As a family lawyer, I am able to help you understand your rights and responsibilities and can explain the law that applies to your case. ... I can also help you and your former partner reach an agreement without needing to go to court. It is always best if each party is separately legally represented.

23.01.2022 If you are looking for someone you can count on, who will add value and go the extra mile for you, give me a call. The way I do that is by being reliable, turning my work around fast and being good value for money I believe in connecting deeply with people and being deeply interested in their issue and caring about it.... I regularly go above and beyond and exceed expectations. I am honest with people about their prospects. I am empathetic about a person’s situation; while presenting with technical excellence as a lawyer, I am not clinical about any situation. I am keenly interested in people and they sense that. I have an attitude of abundance and enjoy increasing the pie for everyone; where appropriate and cost-effective, I make referrals to those who can help in situations where I don’t have the expertise but I have knowledge in how those service providers can help. I am genuinely interested in who a person is, their work, their education, what makes them tick and finding the best solution for them in their circumstances.

23.01.2022 2 great tips that were passed onto me. 1. Identify a person’s fear and speak to their fear: this will result in reassuring them that you understand their position, consoling them, placating them, empathising with them. 2. Learn about threshold guardians and don’t let them divert you from your end game. Let me explain.... These people are there to test whether we are ready to make the leap to the next level. If we are not ready to step up to the mark, we allow them to scare us off. They may also be a sign from the universe that in fact, we are not actually ready to take the leap or that we are making a mistake. They need to be overcome and even to be turned into allies! The world of myth and movies is full of threshold guardians - ferocious-looking demon statutes standing guard at the gates of temples, border guards, any character whose job it is to temporarily block the way and test a character’s powers to move forward. For women threshold guardians manifest as husbands, children, parents and probably more often than not low self-esteem.

22.01.2022 When we collaborate with one another and be future focussed as well as focus on the solution with kindness we all win. Governor Macquarie roses from my garden. These beautifully scented roses were especially propagated as a legacy of the Macquarie 2010 Bicentenary Commemorations of which I was the architect and for which, as well as other services to the community, I was honoured to receive the Medal of the Order of Australia. These roses are planted in abundance at the 2015 ...Bathurst Bicentenary Commemorative Flagstaff, along with the Elizabeth Macquarie Iris, the opening of which was enriched by indigenous leaders’ participation and the making by indigenous women of magnificent possum skin cloaks created in healing workshops. One of these cloaks was given by Wiradjuri Elder, Dinawan Dyrribang, at the May 2010 proclamation day ceremony as a gesture of reconciliation to then-Mayor Gary Rush. .

21.01.2022 Many people are doing it tough at the moment between the drought, the bushfires and now Covid-19. This Harvard Business Review article is definitely worth a read if you have lost a job you love. https://hbr-org.cdn.ampproject.org//making-sense-of-the-fu

21.01.2022 RECOGNISE (the exertion of power over one person by another) >RESPOND>REFER Last night via Zoom I attended an all of S-E Asia webinar that focussed on raising awareness about the increase in family and domestic violence as a result of Covid-19 lockdowns, Fiji, Singapore and Hong Kong all seeing huge increases in violence. Japan has seen a 60% increase from May to July 2020 skyrocketing its monthly Cabinet Office reported stats from 10,000 per month in 2019 to 28,800 per mon...th. Australia has unfortunately witnessed a similar trend providing challenges to law enforcement agencies, including the Australian Federal Police who have seen an increase in attempts at forced marriages (where most offenders are parents or brothers making choosing criminal prosecution difficult for the young woman (conflicted loyalties) and attempts at "Exit Trafficking" - packing off an unwanted spouse to the home country by means of misleading and deceptive incentives where the husband's family when she arrives takes her passport and other ID thus preventing her from returning home. Around the world, as communities have gone into lockdown to stop the spread of the virus, the mass efforts to save lives have put adults in abusive relationships and their children more at risk. Home is not always a safe place to live for adults and children living in situations of domestic and familial violence. In fact, home is often the space where physical, psychological and sexual abuse occurs. This is because home can be a place where dynamics of power can be distorted and subverted by those who abuse, often without scrutiny from anyone outside the couple, or the family unit. In the COVID19 crisis, the exhortation to stay at home therefore has major implications for adults and children already living with someone who is abusive or controlling. Strict restrictions on movement shut off avenues of escape, helpseeking and ways of coping for victimsurvivors. On a positive note, because victims are working from home, this has given rise to workplace policy development and greater assistance being provided to victims. See more

19.01.2022 We encourage our clients to negotiate settlements rather than engage in emotionally stressful and financially costly court cases.

18.01.2022 I wondered about the Federal Government’s putting considerable funds - in the context of Covid-19 - into mental health, then this week I was reminded by clients who operate in the mental health environment of just how badly it is exacerbating existing conditions, their workplaces witnessing a significant spike in attempted suicides and suicides. I mean this: anyone out there who is at the end of their tether: what can I do to help you? Give me a shout. Don’t suffer in silence.

16.01.2022 My family law firm limits the number of clients we take on so that our clients hopefully do not experience long, frustrating delays (there are sometimes factors that we cannot control). As a number of Sydney and Central West client matters are wrapping up shortly, with my clients very happy with their outcomes and the service provided, we now have the capacity to assist you. Give me a shout if I can assist.

16.01.2022 In 2006 I was privileged to travel with another legal colleague to Japan and to stay for 10 nights in one of the scores of Buddhist monasteries in beautiful, high up in the mountains, Mt Koya, complete with its 1000-year-old+ cedar and maple forests that stretch for as far as the eye can see. Of a morning we learned Buddhist spiritual practices such as mindfulness including writing haiku, a poem capturing a special moment, meditation, rising above difficult situations and res...ilience. Then of an afternoon, we enjoyed visiting incredible medieval towns like Nara, natural hot springs bathhouses, and mountain and village walks, not to mention the great coffee houses and the extraordinary and ancient Okuno-in with its thousands of ancient stone monuments, memorials to the dead set amongst giant cedars. Red scarves are placed around the necks of mothers and babies who have died, the fading of the red over time symbolising the fading of the grief of the bereaved. Beautiful. This Buddhist practice, No Expectations, No Disappointments is a great ideal behaviour, if sooo very hard to stick to, but it can help during difficult times. See more

14.01.2022 Statement by the then Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia, Elizabeth Evatt AC Decision in Warwick Trial 23 July 2020 The law has taken its course and Leonard Warwick has been found guilty of murder. His malevolent violence against the Family Court and those connected with it destroyed many lives, and caused deep grief and irreparable harm to his victims, their families and to many of us in the Court. We were deeply shocked and grieved in 1980 when he shot Justice... David Opas, and again in 1984 when Justices Richard Gee and Ray Watson were badly injured and Pearl Watson killed by Warwick’s bombs. The families of David Opas, Pearl Watson and the other victims of Warwick’s violence must have some sense of relief now that he has been brought to justice. However, none of us who have been so deeply affected by his crimes can ever forget those who were his victims. Nothing can repair the grave harms he has caused to so many. I would like to thank the Police for their perseverance in the investigation of these cases.

14.01.2022 When it is just and equitable, we adopt an early dispute resolution approach wherever possible. We support mediation as a key dispute resolution solution. We try not to escalate your conflict but to reduce it and strive to keep you out of the red on the dispute resolution spectrum.

13.01.2022 Great day today at the annual Central West Lawyers continuing legal education in Orange, thank you to the organisers, well done, where much time was dedicated to maintaining resilience and good mental health in the pandemic, presented by an expert who is an adviser to the Australian and UK bar and law societies, Robyn Bradey. A few key takeaways which apply to one and all are were: 1. White males over 40 do not know how unhappy they are until it is too late as they are so ou...t of touch with their emotional state (lawyers have a very high rate of suicide and we recently saw a Queensland family court judge take his own life.) 2. Be kind to yourself, to colleagues and to others in general. 2. Be flexible and embrace change all the while looking for the opportunities; 3. Venting without permission to friends and colleagues is not a good thing to do: it traumatises you and may cause "neural kindling" to the receiver i.e. the triggering of trauma in others and burns into the venter's brain and into the recipient's brain. Seek appropriate professional help rather than burden your loved ones, friends and colleagues and find solutions to your problems that will calm you and soothe you. 4. If you have stopped laughing you are in trouble; if you are laughing too much you may also be in trouble; 5. Learn the practice of mindfulness: when washing dishing, just wash dishes as Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh teaches, in other words concentrate and think of one thing at a time. Live in the present moment, except when required to plan for the future, and only plan for the future at that time. 6. Stay hopeful and connected with others. Isolation is one of the biggest risk and isolating is a key symptom of depression. 7. Build in brain holidays i.e. read, watch good movies, listen to music, exercise, play games, draw, dance all of these things ...give your brain a rest and stimulate it in a good way; 8. Actively reach out to others, The brain can change, can adapt to new circumstances neuroscience teachings tell us. 9. Separate others' stories from your stories. Empathise but do not overly take on another's trauma as it is bad for you and bad for them as you are supposed to be assisting them, not making their lives worse! See more

13.01.2022 Today is the 12th anniversary of Hon David Tonge's death, a judge of the Family Court of Australia during the time of the family court bombings, the perpetrator, recently, finally being jailed, after 30 years, for his many crimes. When friends, colleagues and I were junior lawyers, David was the wisest and kindest pupil master: he gave us all as much time as we needed, taking the time to train us properly without making one feel shredded by humiliating and condescending feedb...ack, which alas was the way of too many large law firm partners back in the day. I still regularly ask him for his opinion when I have a vexing ethical or legal question to address saying to myself: what would David recommend? I suspect young lawyers today are not accorded the privilege of such caring, learned and careful legal training. He himself had wonderful legal training as an associate of High Court judge, Justice Victor Windeyer, whom David said was equally as kind, attentive and willing to share his knowledge and wisdom, when David was a new lawyer. Like me, David came to the law later, he after being an officer in the Australian Army. David had a collection of hilarious sayings also now disappearing from the language, a few of which I will share so we can all smile when we think of David today and remember what a lovely man he was, as everyone without fail, would say: Up at sparrow’s fart Trod on a frog (farted) Do you have any more snakes in your bag (to clients who made a practice of withholding important information)? Between a rock and a hard place He couldn’t organise a root in a brothel He couldn’t fight his way out of a paper bag Don’t let the bastards get you down Some days are like diamonds and some days are like stones Her softest feature was the enamel on her teeth Have you ever heard of an efficacious case of the shits? A blue-ribbon arsehole As mean as cat shit I’ve got a mind like a can of worms I need to grab my brains You need a real head kicker, a lawyer with a bit of mongrel in him (for client's facing an impossible opponent)

12.01.2022 Time to bust a move? Need sensible, timely legal advice to navigate your way forward? We are here to negotiate parenting and property settlements for you.

12.01.2022 As the year ends, it is good to see another negotiated settlement finalised and approved by the court. If you wish to secure the best outcomes for yourself and your children, it is important to obtain competent legal advice. Don't be bullied into being told otherwise as a number of my clients this year seem to have experienced ... they are now happy they empowered themselves by consulting our firm. Happy client, happy life.

11.01.2022 This Google Talk caused me to shed a tear. It takes about 20 minutes to reach the key messages for purposes of this post. It would be wonderful if most men and women cherished their partners. Children would be so much better off, as would the world. ... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vsMydMDi3rI See more

11.01.2022 Wondering why you bother? Check out our refreshed family law services website for lots of helpful information about the family process and our approach to resolving your dispute with the least anguish and expense. www.navigatingfl.com.au

11.01.2022 Easier said than done sometimes, but worth pausing and reflecting upon.

10.01.2022 Covid-19 has led to an increase in the use of violence by perpetrators when their dominance in the household is threatened by job loss or financial insecurity. Porn addiction has also contributed to sexual violence. https://thepulse.org.au//easier-hospital-access-for-domest

10.01.2022 Was very excited to find this in the post today. Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks ... conferred, on 26 October 2020 Covid 19 style, in absentia. After practising law in Sydney and Melbourne for many years in financial services and corporate law, although continuing to do family law-related work in the superannuation space, it was important to upskill so I could give my local and Sydney clients even better service.

10.01.2022 Need a solicitor who can assist you out of town or out of hours? We can assist you ... and will not charge for travelling time within 50klms. Seeing a client today near lovely Millthorpe enabled a must have coffee which hit just the right spot at the Millthorpe Providore. Alas, the sweet shop is closed today.

09.01.2022 In our legal practice, we take a holistic approach and ensure that our clients have explored all avenues to assist them with their relationship breakdowns. We always recommend, in accordance with best practice for family lawyers, that our client sees their GP to obtain a referral to a psychologist or counsellor to help them navigate the rocky terrain that family law matters inevitably traverse. Men are particularly grateful for this as it's often hard for men to open up to their friends and family about their grief. Seeing a good psychologist can also assist men and women to learn better ways of communicating in order to reduce conflict.

08.01.2022 Every day I see people whose lives appear on the surface to be idyllic. Never envy another’s journey because everyone no matter how well off, important, successful or happy has stuff ... illegitimate children revealing themselves, someone in the family who might be causing shame or worry, a revelation of ill health, Covid-19, or a disappointment. Focus on what is going well in your life; count your many blessings as these gifts each day galvanise our ability to remain resilient and help us to get through the hard times. Comment below to share a blessing or blessings you count today. I count my children, my grandchildren, my education, my wonderful career as a solicitor and mediator, the sunshine and the beauty of the Central West countryside.

06.01.2022 A fabulous Friday here in the Central West. Enjoy a safe and health protected socially distanced weekend one and all. Remember we socially distance in case we unknowingly have the virus and thus may unwittingly transmit it to those near and dear to us.

04.01.2022 Some Saturday bush humour ... courtesy of the Hill End Pub.

04.01.2022 Some days are diamonds, some days are stones Sometimes the hard times won't leave me alone Sometimes a cold wind blows a chill in my bones Some days are diamonds, some days are stones... Don't try to do it all alone. Give us a call if you need help with your family law issues.

02.01.2022 https://www.linkedin.com//sexual-harassment-legal-world-as

01.01.2022 Food for thought!

01.01.2022 Access Coping with COVID-19 Free Resources (+mindfulness, depression and anxiety etc) via St Vincent's Hospital online: thiswayup.org.au and UNSW Sydney.