Settle Together
New Way Lawyers is proud to partner with, and support, Settle Together.
Settle Together provides couples who have amicably separated with an improved process for resolving post separation parenting, child support and property / financial matters.
Find out more to see if Settle Together is suitable for you.
What is Settle Together?
Settle Together brings together a range of family law tools and resources into a single service offering that can be delivered by one lawyer to both parties.
Through Settle Together a couple has access to all the resources and tools needed to resolve parenting, child support, property and financial matters as well as their actual divorce. Incorporating, information, advice, collaboration, mediation, documentation and post resolution support such as parenting coordination, Settle Together provides a comprehensive and cost-effective service offering for amicable couples.
Why was Settle Together started?
Settle Together was created because the current approaches for resolving family law matters are flawed. The system entrenches the parties in conflict from the start, pushing them to separate lawyers who advocate competing positions, which can result in heightened and escalated conflict.
Settle Together uses a non-adversarial model of dispute resolution that aims to draw parties together, toward resolution, rather than pushing them apart. Key to Settle Together is the fact that parties work together with a single lawyer rather than two separate lawyers to find a holistically beneficial outcome.
The benefits of Settle Together
Settle Together has numerous benefits compared to traditional approaches of resolving parenting, child support, property and financial matters. Settle 2gether’s unique process is quicker, cheaper, less stressful, amicable, accessible and supportive.
Quicker
3-6 Month Time Line
Lower Cost
Fixed Fee
Less Stressful
Streamlined
Amicable
Prioritises respect and dignity
Accessible
Services delivered online Australia wide
Supportive
Services provided by caring and empathetic team
Who can use Settle Together
Settle Together isn’t suitable for all separating couples but is suitable for many who are amicable and looking for a better pathway. Read below to learn about suitability and eligibility criteria.
Suitable when
- Parties agree to participate
- Parties are able to communicate despite the separation
- Parties desire a positive post separation relationship
- Parties desire a holistic cost effective resolution
- Parties have unique and individual needs such as children with special needs and complex financial and property arrangements
Not suitable when
- Only one party agrees to participate
- Proceedings have already been commenced in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- During the relationship, or following separation, there has been allegations of child abuse
- During the relationship, or following separation, there has been domestic violence
How can Settle Together help?
Settle Together offers 3 specific service streams – these are parenting, child support and property and finances.
Parenting
Our parenting stream focuses on resolution of post separation parenting arrangements for children, including how major parenting decisions relating to health and education are made, living and care arrangements, special time and holiday arrangements, travel arrangements and other specific issues.
The parenting stream can be offered as child inclusive, when children are older and able to express views and wishes about parenting arrangements, or alternatively as a standard offering without the child inclusive component.
Child Support
Property & Financial
Resolution of property and financial arrangements, including the tailored division of assets and liabilities, superannuation splitting, and the treatment of business entities, trusts, and self-managed superannuation funds occurs through our property and finances stream.
Where appropriate, advice from valuers, accountants, and financial planners can be incorporated to ensure taxation implications and broader financial planning considerations are properly addressed