Family Law

Our Family Law Department is led by Carrie McDermott, whose expertise and experience in Family Law is extensive.  Carrie has been practicing Family Law for over 21 years.

Carrie has represented clients at all stages in the Family Law process, to include Judicial Separation and Divorce, and focuses mainly on High Court Family Law matters.  She has extensive experience in dealing with legal financial taxation implications that arise in the context of marital breakdown.

She advises on all areas of Family Law to include:

  • Pre-nuptial Agreements
  • Access and Maintenance
  • Cohabitees
  • Civil Partnerships
  • Foreign Adoptions
  • Foreign Divorces
  • Domestic Violence
  • Surrogacy

Carrie is supported by Legal Consultant, Mornè Gouws in the area of Family Law, and confidential advisory services are guaranteed, with a personable and empathetic approach to such matters.

MDM understand that when an individual seeks advice in the context of marital breakdown, it is at a time of crisis in their lives, and MDM is committed to providing supportive, confidential, strategic, and commercial advices to clients who find themselves in marital breakdown.

“Accept what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what is meant to be”

 MDM Law