At CLEON Legal and Mediation Services, we help put the pieces back together after a family breakdown, and help you achieve your dream family life after family separation, divorce, and domestic violence.

As one of Townsville’s most experienced and trusted family lawyers, our Principal Lawyer, Chrissy Leontios and her team, understand the complexities of the family legal system, and we are here to help you. We are specialist family law and domestic violence lawyers and mediators, and we specialise in children's matters with the majority of our work centred on parenting issues. CLEON Legal and Mediation Services has specialist training in dealing with domestic violence, and understands that clients need to feel safe, listened to, supported, validated, and empowered. We work for the victims and survivors, and are committed to helping our clients and children be safe from family violence and abuse, and ensure we promote the best interests of the child in all family law matters.

 

Family Law

• Draft Applications for Divorce
• Divorce Hearings
• Advice about Children/ Children's Matters/ Court Proceedings/ Collaborative Law/ Negotiations/ Mediation
• ​Advice about Property Settlements/ Property Matters/ Court Proceedings/ Collaborative Law/ Negotiations/ Mediation
• Draft Consent Orders
• Draft Parenting Plans
• Draft Binding Financial Agreements
• Review Binding Financial Agreements
• Advice about Binding Child Support Agreements/ Draft Binding Child Support Agreements/ Review Binding Child Support Agreements
• ​Through CLEON Mediations, we also offer Family Dispute Resolution services. Our mediation services are focused on helping families reach amicable decisions, with an emphasis on helping conflicting families stay out of the court system. We are experienced in dealing with family conflict, and the impact of domestic violence on children.

 

Domestic Violence

• Draft Applications for Protection Orders
• Engage in Empowerment Coaching and Safety Planning
• Prepare Court Documentation (such as Affidavits and Subpoenas)
• Attend Court Dates, such as Applications for Temporary Protection Orders, Mentions, and Final Trial
• Brief and Instruct Barristers to Appear in Complex Negotiations and Final Trial

 

Victim Assist Applications

• We help you prepare your Victim Assist Application, and lodge it on your behalf.  This includes helping you receive financial reimbursement from Victim Assist Queensland, to recover monies spent as a result of an act/s of violence, ​and we can also apply on your behalf to receive a special recognition payment. 

If you’re feeling broken, scared, lost, and confused after a family breakdown, CLEON Legal can help you put your broken heart back together, by assisting you with the practicalities of your separation or divorce. By allowing you time to focus on your emotional and psychological healing, we can take some of the stress out of a family breakdown. You can read more about our holistic approach to family law on our blog.

Think of us at CLEON Legal and Mediation Services as your legal angels. Our job is to provide you with legal advice and mediation services, as well as referrals to support networks. Although based in Townsville, we offer a virtual legal service across Australia to help with your family law matters.

CLEON Legal and Mediation Services will work with you holistically; we understand that clients do not often present with just a legal problem. For example, in consultation with you, we may engage a family counsellor, or child psychologist, or conduct safety planning and empowering coaching with you if you are experiencing domestic and family violence.  

If you would like to separate respectfully and peacefully and are looking for family law or domestic violence legal advice, please contact us HERE.