Family & De Facto Law

Hartley Healy practice in all aspects of Family and Defacto Law and have offices located in Brisbane, Gold Coast and the Sunshine Coast. We also service clients living outside these areas in Queensland, Australia and overseas via our excellent internet services.

With six Family Law Solicitors, four of whom have achieved Specialist Accreditation, and a support staff team dedicated to providing expert family and defacto law advice for our many satisfied clients, Hartley Healy has grown to become one of the most respected boutique specialist family law firms in Australia.

Our Mission

Our Mission is to be proactive in resolving our clients' matters quickly and cost effectively to minimize their emotional and financial stress so that they can move on with their lives.

To achieve our Mission, we:

• Recruit and retain the best lawyers;
• Work as a united team;
• Provide "Big Picture" commercial and tactical advice;
• Educate our clients that there are no "winners" in relationship breakdowns if a matter escalates into a litigious, time-consuming and costly dispute.

Litigation promotes and feeds conflict between parties and their families and profits aggressive and litigious lawyers who do not care about their client's predicament. We are not such lawyers. Litigation must always be a last resort.

"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbours to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough."

Abraham Lincoln

Our Values

At Hartley Healy, our firm's culture supports our seven core values of:

• Absolute client focus and commitment - we are a client focused firm, we strive for excellence in our service and seek to constantly exceed our client expectations.
• Always proactive, never reactive - our proactive approach is to ensure the best possible outcome for our clients in a timely and cost effective manner.

Ethics without compromise - although we have a duty to comply with our client's instructions and to use our utmost skill and diligence in representing our clients, this duty is subject to our overriding duty to the Court / administration of Justice. Our role is to secure the best result possible for our client on the basis of the facts and the applicable law. By understanding our ethical obligations, it makes us better tacticians because an ethical lawyer will always approach a matter on a cost effective basis for clients where as unethical lawyers increase their client's costs either because their focus is on their monetary rewards as opposed to their client or they act in a manner which hinders settlement.

Teamwork - We enjoy strong cohesion in a supportive working and social environment. We celebrate our successes, individual achievements and promotions. Furthermore, our team encompasses not only employees within the firm but our strategic partners. We seek to utilize and form relationships with the best professional advisers in the community who also assist in serving our clients (Valuers, Accountants, other Lawyers, Barristers, Financial Planners etc).

Recruit and retain the best - we aim to attract the best talented prospective employees to our firm and to retain and develop our talented staff. We actively ensure our staff maintains superior technical skills and knowledge in Family Law. Our firm policy is to only employ Accredited Family Law Specialists or Solicitors who are prepared to undertake study toward achieving their Specialist Accreditation.

Continuously improve and grow - we have a commitment to grow the business and to assist in the growth and development of our individual staff.

Give back to the community - Helen Keller said "true happiness is not obtained through self gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose". As a business we create jobs and provide services but in addition we believe it is important that we give back to the community. We have a commitment to raise funds for certain charities and we encourage our staff to be involved in volunteer activities that support the community