Mark Parker

Mark is a partner in Lander & Rogers' family and relationship law team and has been an Accredited Family Law Specialist since 1991. He is recognised in the 2025 and 2026 editions of Doyle's Guide as Melbourne's market leading family & divorce lawyer.

Mark represents clients in family and domestic relationship law, both nationally and internationally. His experience in financial cases includes all aspects of property law including trusts, large manufacturing companies and other large trading entities, valuation disputes in relation to professional practices, farming properties and partnerships. Mark also has extensive experience in cases involving applications under the Child Support legislation and the drafting of Binding Child Support Agreements and Binding Financial Agreements to protect both property settlements and inter-generational family wealth.

Mark is a member of the International Academy of Family Lawyers and has substantial experience in international disputes, including cases involving Singaporean and Hong Kong related family law disputes and forum arguments involving Australian family law matters in those jurisdictions.

Mark is widely recognised by the legal industry as one of Australia's leading family lawyers, and is consistently acknowledged in national publications and at industry awards for his outstanding contributions to family law. He was awarded Lawyers Weekly Family Law Partner of the Year in 2016 and 2022, and was named a finalist in the same category in 2020 and 2021.

Mark is named the market leading family lawyer for Melbourne, a Preeminent Family & Divorce Lawyer, a Leading Prenuptial Agreement lawyer in Australia and a Preeminent Family Lawyer (High-Value & Complex Property Matters) in Victoria by Doyle's Guide.

Since 2012, Mark has been consistently recognised in the Best Lawyers in Australia publication for his expertise in Family Law.

Experience

Mark’s areas of expertise include:

• international family law
• property settlements (including negotiated agreements, mediation and successful judgments in defended litigation)
• financial agreements for couples who are in or contemplating a de facto relationship or marriage, including for succession planning and intergenerational wealth preservation
• parenting arrangements for the care of children (including alternative dispute resolution, private mediation and litigation)
• family violence cases
• making or defending urgent spousal maintenance applications
• negotiating private child support arrangements to cater for the specific educational and developmental needs of children.