JP Family Law & Mediation

Brisbane Family Lawyers using strategy and compassion to help you through separation.
Separate better.

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About us

Our Founder

About

JP Family Law & Mediation

Welcome to our family law firm.

Our Brisbane-based family lawyers work remotely and online to offer a premium and tailored service to clients going through separation and divorce.

Operating from our base in South East Queensland, we know how challenging it can be to access quality legal services from regional and remote areas. We also understand that every client has their own unique needs and that this extends to the type of lawyer and family law firm they want to work with.

At JP Family Law & Mediation, we put people first.

We promise to be:

Responsive
Transparent
Resolution Focused

We dream of a day in which our services will no longer be needed. In the meantime (and being a little more pragmatic) it is our vision to mitigate and minimise the role of the law in separation, and to work with families holistically to overcome disputes and move on with their lives. With our Legal Practice Director, Jess Purcell, coming from a background of family, domestic violence, and child protection law, our Brisbane-based family lawyers are confident we can support and guide your family on your journey through separation, and out the other side. Our family law solicitors aim to empower you to make the decisions about your family’s future, rather than placing it in the hands of a court, and exhausting your time, money, and emotional stability along the way. At JP Family Law & Mediation, we believe in the services we offer and trust in the results we can achieve. Separation is hard. It’s time to separate better.

Our Founder

Legal Practice Director, Jess Purcell

Jess established JP Family Law & Mediation in October 2021, having began as a commercial paralegal in 2008 and being finally admitted as a lawyer in 2017.

Having worked in family law, domestic violence and child protection, Jess decided to make good use of her maternity leave by completing a Masters in Applied Laws majoring in Family Law and Family Dispute Resolution (and she looked after her baby too, don’t worry!) and created JPFLM with a view to building a practice that offered a legal service in a less traditional way.
What sets Jess apart from many other lawyers is that she has managed to cram a lifetime of personal and professional experience into a short amount of time, providing her with insight that allows her to support you through your difficult times.

Having worked in social security and child protection, Jess has additional training in mental health, substance misuse and domestic violence, and is due to complete training as an Independent Children’s Lawyer to act in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia.

Outside of work, Jess would love to have some free time but is presently mum to a high energy IVF miracle dude, wife to a similar high energy dude from South Africa, spends a lot of time outside with those two and her menagerie of animals (including a pig) and would probably live in the pool if this were an option. She also lives with Crohn’s Disease which has been one of the biggest challenges in her life to date but also a huge motivator for where she is today.

Easing The Burden

Making The Complex Simple

Tailored Legal Advice

Online & Accessible

Relatable & Approachable

Responsive

Our Services

Family Law

Estate Planning

Coaching

Our Process

Book a Consultation

You can book online right here, or call us to discuss a flexible or out of hours appointment time. Our consultations provide you with a dedicated family lawyer to assess and consider your unique, individual needs.

Complete Your Forms

After booking with our family law firm, you will receive an email with some useful information and links to our initial information forms. These are easy to use and can be completed online via desktop or mobile.

Initial Consultation by Zoom

Our Brisbane-based family law solicitors will usually spend one hour with you via Zoom or phone, at your request, to review your circumstances, consider the options, and plan a way forward to resolve your matter.

Summary and Proposal

After speaking with our family lawyers, we will email you a summary of our initial advice for your information and records. We will also send out our proposal as to how we plan to move your matter forward, including an estimate of fees involved depending on how you want to progress.

Let’s Get Started!

If everything looks in order, and you are ready to get going, you can sign off on the Costs Disclosure and Client Agreement our family lawyers have sent, and we will be ready to get started. It’s time. Let’s separate better.

Jess is professional and personable. She is extremely adept in all things family law. She gave non-biased, up to date advice that was easy to understand. I'm so grateful for her help regarding my situation. Highly recommend!

I can't recommend Jess enough. She went above and beyond and kept me calm in such a stressful time in my life going through a separation. She was so approachable and very quick to respond via email, with all my questions. Great knowledge and great advice. You can tell she cares about you as a client.

Jessica helped my husband and myself put together our wills. She was prompt in her communication with us, and went above and beyond to ensure that we were happy with the end product. I found Jessica to be both personable and professional and would happily use her services again.

I chose Jess to represent me because at the time I needed someone with an empathetic and softer approach than most solicitors but was also professional with a high level of skill. Jess achieved for me a great result, she estimated a fair price and completed the work within budget. This is kind of contemporary approach the legal system needs. I thank Jess for her work and wish her great success in future.

Jessica was extremely helpful, kind and understanding throughout the process, removing a lot of the stress from the situation. She provided friendly and expert counsel at each step of the way, giving me the support I needed to create a positive outcome for all. Highly recommended

I always get a wave of calmness and confidence seeing a new message from you in my inbox, like I know it’s going to be ok!

Everything was great, and I am very glad that I found Jess to help me out with everything I needed to get my financial settlement sorted. Things were looking bleak for a while! Other lawyers had high costs and upfront payments too. So JP Family Law were wonderful and luckily quite close too!

Thank you for your assistance with my life this year.

Resources

17/12/2021

Alienation or protection?

https://youtu.be/D2CzBb9fmX0

26/10/2021

How do you rescue the survivor?

Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.SAMUEL JOHNSON Sitting in the waiting room of my doctor this morning, I was listening to a lady talk about her...

21/10/2021

Why family law is a good thing

You didn’t expect to read that.No one like family law.Not even family lawyers. Right?So, instead of listing off the things that frustrate me about Australia’s current family law system, let...

19/10/2021

Why you really need to get your Will done. Like… now!

The strange thing about Wills is that everyone kind of, sort of, knows that they should probably have one.It’s one of those responsible adult things we all plan to do,...

15/10/2021

Why leaving a domestic violence relationship is the beginning, not the end

I will always remember, quite vividly, the day I left my relationship.I’d been working with a counsellor, trying to work out how I could support ‘Jack’ to overcome his substance...

05/10/2021

Why you want to use the professionals. Because there’s a reason these jobs exist

We all like to think that we can do things ourselves. Some of us more than others. You know who you are. Indeed, it’s highly likely you are the one...

16/08/2021

What if we hate each other too much to mediate?

I won’t lie. I don’t think mediation even so much as crossed my mind when I separated.Which makes me think – aside from those parents who are made to complete...

08/08/2021

We’ve split up. Now what?

I was lucky that, when I went through my own divorce, I was in the midst of completing my law degree and had access to resources that gave me a...

23/03/2021

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – arming yourself for a showdown

I hate conflict. That’s why I do this. But sometimes, it is inevitable. Indeed, if not for conflict, you wouldn’t be reading this right now.You can imagine family dispute resolution...

23/03/2021

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail – how to get the most out of...

Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right”HENRY FORD You can resolve the issues around your separation in a mediation session. Simple.How do you make this...

23/03/2021

Why you should invest in mediation – my personal perspective

You know what annoys me most when I think back to my own divorce settlement? The vacuum cleaner.Why the vacuum cleaner?Vacuum cleaners can be expensive. I learnt this, after I...

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