DA Family Lawyers is a boutique law firm based in Brisbane, Australia, specializing in family and divorce law. With a team of experienced and accredited family law specialists, the firm provides expert advice and tailored solutions to clients navigating complex family law issues.
The firm's main practice areas include: - Parenting disputes and children's matters - Property settlements and agreements - Domestic violence applications - Divorce law - Collaborative law and mediation - Child protection and children's court proceedings - Surrogacy and family dispute resolution
DA Family Lawyers is located in Brisbane, with their office situated at Level 8, 193 North Quay, Brisbane QLD 4000. The firm serves clients across Brisbane and surrounding areas.
The firm's team, led by Managing Director Lisa Foley, has been recognized for their expertise in family law, with several team members holding accredited specialist status. DA Family Lawyers has also been recognized as a Leading Family & Divorce Lawyers Brisbane by the Doyles Guide for 2025.
As a boutique law firm, DA Family Lawyers offers personalized and focused attention to each client, with a team of experienced lawyers and support staff.
The firm offers a range of resolution methods, including collaborative law, mediation, and litigation, and is committed to providing a supportive and sensitive approach to family law
This law firm acts unethically and illegally for financial profits. They pre-empt that the judge or registrar will order a family assessment and refuse to engage in mediation. They are refusing to provide where in the Family Law Act 1975 it states they can legally demand I reduce my medication and need to have a minimum 5 Psychologist appointments and provide them the assessment report for them to review, before they will begin the mediation process with my children. I have been told repeatedly there is 3 separate court processes and they keep stalling the child custody and financial separation unnecessarily to support my ex in continuing to exert coercive control abuse tactics over me. They have been provided all the correspondence between my ex and I showing we had on a number of occasions discussed amicable arrangements since the 3rd January 2023. He baited me into a mental health moment the week before our house was to be listed for sale, and he recorded me in his pocket and when I called the police for help, the male police officer happily threw me out as the perpetrator to make a example of me…. It’s blatant corruption, kidnapping and extortion for financial gain. They have been provided a letter from my long standing GP, Indigenous Counsellor (apparently she isn’t qualified enough by Kate’s assessment) and a workplace EAP psychologist letter confirming I have regular therapy as well as a child safety report the children are okay. I have repeatedly asked since I’ve had to start self acting due to no funds and these lawyers unethical demands, while they know I am experiencing financial hardship and homelessness since I was thrown out in July 2023 due to the breakdown of the marriage, with no way of meeting the financial costs to the demands. I have asked for Industry Service Level Agreements for attending to these matters and am being ignored. The property we shared sold on 22/11/2023 and there is $340k in a trust account that they flat out refused any access to the funds to even meet the demands. I had engaged Barton Lawyers at Petrie to act for me since August (they made me pay a 3mth retainer upfront - which I borrowed from a friend) as I was not eligible for Legal Aid due to the home being a asset. Both firms were unable to achieve anything during this time, except forecast in there monthly budget meetings how long they could stall these processes for financial gain. Barton’s Lawyers gave me a full refund as they know they hadn’t acted ethically in this matter. These Family and Financial experts are facilitating coercive control, extortion and stolen generation in 2024. They do not act in the interest of young children (2 & 5) and will support parental alienation for financial gain. They are refusing to provide my children’s independent lawyer information, and I am unable to find out any other way due to the no contact orders. 7 months no contact with my children I was primary carer of for wanting to leave a marriage? Kate Palmer actively lies in her correspondence and refuses to work with anyone in a timely manner... They are advising I must have legal advice but are refusing to work toward any goal in the best interest of the children - they participate in gaslighting people to try and have someone breach a DVO for there client to get full control of funds. They will use you for money. They have no internal processes to reconcile received information, and are highly unprofessional in the communication when they bother to act.
8/193 N Quay, Brisbane City QLD 4000, Australia