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Genevieve Dee is an Accredited Specialist in Family Law who has practiced exclusively in family and relationship law for over 20 years. She is highly sought after for her expertise in complex property matters, including those involving taxation issues, trusts, manufacturing companies, rural issues, intergenerational wealth and family businesses, and complex corporate structures.
Genevieve's focus is providing clients with practical and strategic advice to assist in the early resolution of matters, to avoid the personal and financial costs of litigation whenever possible. She assists clients in all aspects of family law, including parenting and property matters, de facto relationships, financial agreements, spousal maintenance and child support, and international family law matters.
Genevieve is named in all categories of the 2021-2026 editions of Doyle's Guide, including as a leading Family and Divorce Lawyer in Australia, a High-Value & Complex Property Matters lawyer and a Parenting & Children's Matters lawyer.
Her accomplishments are also recognised through various awards, including WLAQ's 'Emergent Lawyer of the Year' Award and a finalist for Women’s Legal Service Queensland's ‘Woman Lawyer of the Year' Award. Genevieve is consistently recognised by Best Lawyers in Australia for her expertise in family law and family mediation,and was named a Lawyer of the Year for family law mediation in the publication's 2022 edition. She was also a finalist for the Queensland Law Society Accredited Specialist of the Year in 2019.
Genevieve has been a contributing author to the Family Law Master Guide (CCH), including the first edition, and regularly presents at local, national and international conferences on family law topics, including family business, asset protection and estate planning topics.
In addition to her professional achievements, Genevieve contributes extensively to the legal community. She is the immediate past president of the Queensland Law Society, current Chair of the Board for Women’s Legal Service Queensland and past Chair of the Specialist Accreditation Board.
Experience
Genevieve's areas of expertise include:
- high net worth property settlements
- financial agreements
- international cross border disputes involving property and children
- property settlements and commercial advice
- taxation implications of separations and settlements
- all children’s issues including parenting issues and child support
- complex parenting matters including matters in which Genevieve has been appointed as the Independent Children's Lawyer
- spousal maintenance
- injunctions and restraining orders
- domestic and family violence
- divorce.
FAQs
What options are available to resolve my matter without going to Court?
Most of our clients will have their matters resolved outside of court. The most common way of reaching a negotiated outcome with your former partner is by way of mediation. There are a number of advantages of mediation, which avoids the costs and stress of court proceedings and allows the parties to have some control over the outcome. A third-party mediator facilitates discussions between the parties and their legal representatives over the course of the day and if an agreement is reached, it can be formalised by consent orders which becoming binding following approval from the court.
What if my former partner ignores my requests for financial disclosure?
Where you have made reasonable enquiries of your partner to provide financial documents, such as bank statements, and they have refused to do so, we may advise you to issue subpoenas for the production of their financial information. Learn more about how the subpoena process works in this article.
