Martina’s expertise includes:

• Complex Financial Matters – advising high-net-worth individuals and family offices on cases involving substantial asset pools, complex company and discretionary trust structures, partnerships, and sophisticated taxation and valuation issues
• Parenting Matters – management of sensitive children’s issues including surrogacy arrangements, the representation of children with special needs, and navigating the 2024 parenting reforms to achieve the “best interests of the child”
• Divorce Proceedings – negotiation of amicable settlements and strategy resolution for separation and de facto relationship breakdowns, including court-based proceedings in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia where necessary
• Family Law Related Bankruptcy Matters – providing technical oversight in matters intersecting with insolvency, including negotiating with the Trustee in Bankruptcy and managing 3rd party joinder applications to protect non-bankrupt spouses
• International Property Matters – coordination of cross-border settlements involving multi-jurisdictional assets, international family office interests, and the untangling of overseas investment portfolios
• Property and Parenting Matters for Third Party Intervenors – representing the interests of grandparents, business partners, or other parties with a legitimate interest in a child or property pool through complex joinder and intervention applications.
• Local and International Child Abduction Matters – handling urgent Hague Convention applications for the return of children from overseas and obtaining protective injunctions to prevent the unauthorised relocation of children across borders
• Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution including Collaborative Law – delivering interest-based negotiation through confidential NMAS mediation and “5-way” collaborative meetings, designed to avoid the cost and publicity of litigation.
• Financial Agreements – structuring tailored prenuptial, post-nuptial, and de facto agreements (BFAs) before, during, or after a relationship to provide long-term asset protection and commercial certainty
• Wills and Estate Planning – advising on intergenerational wealth transfers, the creation of testamentary trusts, and estate administration to ensure family legacies are preserved post-settlement
• Family Law Related Criminal Proceedings – providing strategic advocacy in matters involving domestic violence and assault, including the intersection of family law orders and personal safety injunctions.