Legal Services in
Forster, Taree and Newcastle
Specialising in Criminal Law, Traffic Law, Family Law and Wills and Estates
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Our Team.
Our team provide high quality legal services to clients across Forster, Taree, Port Macquarie and Newcastle regions. We aim to provide an approachable and dependable service where you feel understood and well informed to make the decisions you need to make in your case.
Our expertise covers a wide range of areas, but we focus our attention on Criminal Law, Family Law and Wills and Estates and pride ourselves at being the best in these areas.
Our Services
Drinkwater Criminal and Family Lawyers was established to meet a growing demand for specialist criminal law and family law services on the Mid North Coast.
Criminal Law
With an Accredited Specialist in Criminal Law leading our team of lawyers we have the experience to assist you regardless of the charge. We regularly represented clients charged with offences such as assaults, sexual offences, affray, domestic violence offences, drug offences, firearm offences, police offences such as resisting arrest, fraud, stealing or larceny, damage to property, robbery, break and enter and manslaughter or murder charges.
We can also assist you if you wish to appeal the outcome in your case.
We provide Legal Aid duty services in Forster, Taree and the Newcastle region and have extensive experience making applications for bail or release.
We appear on almost a daily basis before Forster, Taree and Newcastle Local Courts.
Our team of lawyers has experience representing clients in the Local, District and Supreme Courts.
Traffic Law
Our team of lawyers have an excellent working knowledge of the Road Rules and traffic matters. We can assist you in all manner of traffic offences from speeding to drink and drug driving, dangerous, reckless or negligent driving or driving with your licence suspended, cancelled or disqualified.
We can give you prompt and reliable advice about appealing against a licence suspension, electing to take the offence to court or defending a charge.
Our team can also assist you in referring you on to appropriate services that will help to lessen any possible penalty such as a Traffic Offenders Intervention Program or Sober Driver's Program.
Apprehended Violence Orders
Our team of lawyers regularly advise clients on their rights and obligations when it comes to both personal and domestic Apprehended Violence Orders.
We can give you advice about defending such applications, the effect of conditions imposed on those orders as well as ancillary property recovery orders to recover your belongings if you have been excluded from your home.
We can also advise you on any possible implications of such orders on Working with Children Checks and Firearms Licences and the like.
Family Law
Our team of lawyers have experience dealing with issues arising from the breakdown of your marriage or relationship including disputes about property and parenting matters.
We can assist you in advising your about your rights and obligations in family law matters, what you can expect might occur in your circumstances and refer you to appropriate services for support such as family counselling, mediation and dispute resolution services.
We are focused on achieving results for our clients that ensure that you can move forward with your life in a sensible and practical way.
We can assist you with mediating the dispute, drawing up agreements such as Parenting Plans, Binding Financial Agreements, Consent Orders for both property and parenting matters and if necessary commencing court proceedings and advocating for you in those proceedings.
Wills and Estate Planning
Our team of lawyers can assist you with preparing your estate planning documents such as Wills, Powers of Attorney and Enduring Guardianship documents to give you piece of mind that your affairs are in order to relieve the burden on loved ones.
We are there for you in one of the most difficult times in your life to assist you in managing the estate of your loved one. Our team has extensive experience in making applications for Probate, Letters of Administration and administering the estate including transferring real estate, shares, closing bank accounts and arranging for distribution of the estate.
We can also give you clear advice about your rights to contest a Will should you be unfairly left out.
Client Testimonials
Hear from Those We've Served
Today was a great day and we won. The whole time Brooke was confident, honest, professional and extremely good at her job. Even though I was legally aided, I never felt like she treated me differently to a fully paid client.
For the last 11 months I have had horrible anxiety about this matter and always felt like no one believed that I was innocent, but Brooke fought extremely hard to prove my case and I'm forever thankful.
- AL
Brooke and the team at Drinkwater Family Law were highly professional and knowledgeable during recent representations. Brooke always made sure that our interactions were as stress free as possible and showed authentic understanding and support especially when dealing with traumatic and emotional information. I was kept up to date in a timely manner on any important factors regarding the case and was always presented with honest and knowledgeable information.
Thanks again to Drinkwater Family Law
- CS
Very grateful for Courtney Young's professional representation, thorough research and listening and understanding of the matter at hand. It was a long and difficult experience for us but her warm humane approach to us as clients and her experienced dedication to her profession, made our case see the outcome we set out to achieve and deserve.
Highly recommend, and very greatful for her time, professionalism and representation.
Thank you Courtney and to the office for any and all assistance in the matter.
- BP
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