As well as providing a full range of specialist Family Law advice and representation services, Mark is able to offer expert mediation for all types of disputes.
He is accredited as a Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner by the Federal Attorney General’s Department and can therefore provide compulsory Family Dispute Resolution and issue s60I Certificates under the Family Law Act. He is also a member of the Australian Institute of Family Law Arbitrators and Mediators (AIFLAM), and of LEADR.
In addition, he is uniquely qualified to mediate in other civil disputes: as well as being an Accredited Specialist in Family Law and an FDRP, he spent the first decade of his career as a commercial lawyer practising in the Sydney CBD, both as a partner of Solomon Garland Partners and as a Director of national law firm Gadens Lawyers. He is a member of the NSW District Court Mediators Panel and of the NSW Law Society’s Mediator Panel.
He holds the following accreditations and memberships relevant to the provision of mediation services:
- Accreditation as a Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner (‘FDRP’) by the Federal Attorney General’s Department
- Accreditation as a Mediator under the National Mediator Accreditation System
- Graduate Diploma in Family Dispute Resolution from the Australian Institute of Social Relations
- Postgraduate Diploma of Psychology from Charles Sturt University (the academic prerequisite for registration as a psychologist)
- Member of the NSW District Court Mediators Panel
- Member of the Law Society of NSW’s Mediator Panel
- Member of the Australian Institute of Family Law Arbitrators and Mediators (AIFLAM)
- Practitioner member of LEADR
All aspects of family law including:
divorce & separation
parenting issues
child support
child adoption
binding financial agreements
de-facto relationships
family and domestic violence & AVOs
property settlements
superannuation
Wills and estates, powers of attorney, guardianship and end of life issues
Trusts, companies and partnerships
Conveyancing
We are very happy to represent clients on a grant of legal aid if available.
About Mark
Mark MacDiarmid is accredited as a specialist in family law by the Law Society of NSW, having become a lawyer in 1986 after graduating with degrees in Arts and Law from the University of Sydney. He holds a Postgraduate Diploma of Psychology from Charles Sturt University, a Graduate Diploma in Family Dispute Resolution from the Australian Institute of Social Relations, and is a member of the NSW Legal Aid Commission’s Independent Children’s Lawyer and Mental Health Advocacy Panels. He is a member of the Law Society of NSW, the Family Law Section of the Law Council of Australia, a practitioner member of LEADR and a member of the Australian Institute of Family Law Arbitrators and Mediators (AIFLAM). Mark is accredited by the Federal Attorney General’s Department to provide compulsory Family Dispute Resolution and to issue s60I Certificates under the Family Law Act for disputes involving children. He is also an Accredited Mediator under the National Mediator Accreditation System, a member of the Law Society of NSW's Mediator Panel and the NSW District Court panel of Mediators.
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