Ros Courtney

Ros Courtney is a director at PWB Lawyers, offering extensive experience in family law since 1994. Her practice encompasses complex property and children's matters, where she adeptly negotiates settlements and represents clients in court proceedings. Ros is skilled in handling property matters involving trusts, intricate business structures, and inheritances, as well as farming cases. Her expertise extends to child support matters, maintenance, divorce, and comprehensive parenting issues, including residency arrangements, travel, and relocation cases. Ros is particularly focused on alternative dispute resolution, employing negotiation, conferencing, mediation, and preparing Consent Orders, Financial Agreements, and Child Support Agreements. Recognised in Doyle’s Guide to the Australian Legal Market since 2012 as a recommended family lawyer, Ros regularly appears in the Family and Federal Circuit Courts of Australia. Her earlier career included roles such as an independent children's lawyer within the Family Law jurisdiction and a child representative in the Child Welfare jurisdiction. Ros earned her Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws from the University of Tasmania, being admitted to the Supreme Court of Tasmania as a barrister and solicitor in 1992. Initially working with a firm on Tasmania's northwest coast, she joined PWB Lawyers in 1994, where she continues to build her formidable career.