Kym Kerr

Principal

Kym is the principal of Talbot Olivier's family law practice.

Kym is a nationally Accredited Family Law Specialist working with clients based locally, interstate and overseas.  Kym relocated to Western Australia in 2002 after working as a family lawyer in Victoria and obtained specialist accreditation in 2007.

 Kym's areas of practice include: 

• Alternative dispute resolution
• Binding financial agreements
• Collaborative law
• De facto relationships
• Division of superannuation
• Divorce
• Family Court representation
• Hague Convention child abduction matters
• Interstate and international child abduction
• Parenting arrangements
• Property settlements
• Same-sex domestic relationships
• Spousal maintenance
• Surrogacy 

Kym's recent appointment signifies the return of the practice of family law to Talbot Olivier, an area of law with which the late Don Talbot was synonymous.  Kym is also one of the few lawyers in Perth to practise in the newly legislated area of surrogacy in Western Australia.

Given Talbot Olivier's broad practice areas, we are able to offer Kym's family law clients an extensive range of in-house legal services (including estate planning, powers of attorney, conveyancing, corporate and personal insolvency, restraining orders, criminal law, litigation and Corporations Act/partnership/trust advice) should this be required.

Admitted to practice: 2002.

Qualification: Bachelor of Laws, Master of Arts.

Publications / presentations: Kym has presented seminars and papers to a number of professional groups covering all aspects of Family Law, including specialist areas such as Surrogacy and the Hague Child Abduction Convention.

Memberships: Law Society of Western Australia; Collaborative Professionals WA http://www.collaborativeprofessionalswa.com.au/find-a-collaborative-lawyer.html; Family Law Practitioners Association of Western Australia; Women Lawyers of Western Australia.