Mathews Family Law & Mediation Specialists

I have known Vanessa Mathews professionally for a couple of years. Her dedication, professionalism and expertise is matched with her effective communication, compassion and understanding. I would not hesitate to refer her services.

Vanessa's compassion and her ability to communicate her impressive knowledge in the field of family law in a calm and clear manner were invaluable to me when I divorced three years ago. I have since recommended Vanessa to friends and family who have spoken in the most glowing of terms of her professionalism, dedication and excellent advice.

I used Matthews Family Law for my divorce and found Vanessa Mathews to be very professional and she had very good advice to ensure a fair and equitable divorce settlement. Divorce is never fun but having a lawyer who understands your point of view but who is also able to tell you what you can expect legally is important.

I have been a colleague of Vanessa Mathews of Mathews Family Law for over ten years. Vanessa is passionate about family law and serving clients to the highest professional standards. I would not hesitate in recommending Mathews Family Law.

I am a CPA in public practice and over many years have been referring clients to Vanessa Mathews of Mathews Family Law. The feedback from my clients has always been positive which is pleasing as family law matters can be extremely difficult to negotiate.Vanessa and her team are all professionals who get the best possible result for their client.I have no hesitation in recommending Vanessa and her colleagues at Mathews Family Law

I recently had the good fortune to work closely with the whole team at Mathews Family Law in Toorak, Melbourne, and found the team to be, without exception, highly professional, well-organised, knowledgeable, pleasant and personable, passionate and dedicated to client service.That approach is reflected in their welcoming, practical, offices, and by the large volume of high-quality free information on their website, that I found very easy to use.Choosing the right Family Lawyer for you is never easy, but I can heartily recommend you start out by checking out this super smaller quality firm for yourself.

Vanessa is professional, compassionate & has incredible skill at holding space for family’s in really difficult times of their lives. Highly recommend. Thank you Vanessa.

Vanessa has been my confident for many years now and I have always found her advice to be valuable, discreet and very professional. I would have no hesitation in recommending Vanessa to anyone who needs assistance with family law matters. Julia Longmuir

Extremely disappointingI had high hopes when I first spoke with Vanessa, she was kind. compassionate, intelligent and came across as business like. I should have taken note of the first red flag, meeting at her temporary office in Mullumbimby I was left waiting outside in the front garden for 20 minutes in 40 degree heat, half shading myself under a tree. Following the poor start the meeting went quite well, my matter was time conscious with Christmas coming up I wanted to agree shared time with children and stop my ex continual changing arrangements directly with the children and pestering me at my home. Vanessa said she would draft a letter that afternoon. 3 or 4 days later I received a draft that needed much work, but was completed emailed a couple of days later .... to the wrong email address. The follow up letter, then days before Vanessa was taking time off was sent with a demand to respond 30 minutes before the email was sent. Naturally this had the other party lose respect for my lawyer and my standpoint lost all it's weight, instead of taking my calls to rectify the situation Vanessa went on holiday on the dot and was not available again until 4 weeks later, having massively harmed my situation and suffering revenge from my consistently vindictive ex. No apologies from Vanessa, no attempts to rectify the situation or at the very least strike off the charges for the glaring errors. Instead I am constantly harassed to pay for Vanessa's ineptness that has done further damage to my family situation and my relationship with my children. Vanessa is extremely articulate in her writing and clear insightful in assessing a situation - unfortunately her inept follow through and lack of self responsibility has done incredible harm to my situation and I live with the consequences everyday.

Kuppy did an amazing job of getting me through what was the most challenging period of my life. I will always be very appreciative of how she got me through this difficult time. Other members of Mathews Family Law were also very helpful and supportive. I highly recommend them.