Cassandra Pullos LLB

Director - Accreditated Family Law Specialist

Cassandra Pullos is one of Queensland’s senior Family Lawyers who has practiced in Family, Relationship and Defacto law since her admission as a lawyer in 1985. She has a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from Queensland University of Technology.

She has practiced on the Gold Coast since 1988, and between 1991 and 2008 was a partner in one of the Gold Coast’s oldest legal firms.

Cassandra backs her experience with specialist qualifications as a Queensland Law Society Accredited Family Law Specialist, a Queensland Law Society Accredited Mediator and a Collaborative Lawyer trained to the international standards of the International Academy of Collaborative Practitioners.

In 2008 she established Cassandra Pullos Lawyers as a boutique law firm focusing on Family, Relationship and Defacto Law and Alternate Dispute Resolution in all areas of law.

Cassandra’s legal experience is not limited to Family Law, she has also practiced in the various areas of commercial based law which gives her a strong understanding of the wider issues of law associated with the breakdown of relationships and the restructuring of lives.

More often than not in today’s world peoples lives are organized by way of company structures, family trusts and unit trusts, taxation considerations and of course, much more now than ever before, superannuation. Cassandra is a family lawyer who can integrate her knowledge and experience in all of these areas into the issues of property division, spousal maintenance, child support, estate planning and asset restructuring.

Cassandra’s background in commercial and construction litigation before specializing in Family Law have given her a solid grounding as a strong and effective litigator in the Court system and she brings those skills to her practice of Family Law when the best alternative is a Court based resolution. She has a long history of practice in the Family Court and the Federal Magistrates Court.

Cassandra also has a strong commitment to alternate dispute resolution and a particular interest in fostering and growing those methods that serve the client’s enlightened, long term and holistic self interest and to bring them through the divorce passage with integrity and satisfaction.

In pursuit of that commitment she has been instrumental in bringing to Australia the practice of Collaborative Law. She is the President of Queensland Collaborative Law and serves as the Queensland representative on the Collaborative Law sub committee of the Law Council of Australia and on the National Committee of Collaborative Practice.

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