Family, Wealth & Relationship Advisory

At AJ & Co, we guide families, business owners and private clients through their most significant personal, financial and relationship decisions with clarity, discretion and strategic insight. We advise on how to protect, preserve and transition wealth in ways that support your personal priorities and long‑term objectives.

Our Private Advisory practice brings together leading expertise across family law, estate planning, succession, trusts and asset protection. Working alongside individuals, family groups, private businesses and their trusted advisors, we craft tailored legal solutions that safeguard wealth, support family harmony and resolve complex personal matters with foresight and precision.

Whether you are planning for the future, navigating the breakdown of a relationship, or managing complex estate or trust administration, our team provides measured, commercially grounded and forward‑thinking advice curated to your unique circumstances.

Our Expertise Includes

Family & Relationship Law

• Strategic advice on relationship breakdowns including all property, parenting, spousal maintenance, child support and divorce matters.
• Representation in mediation and all forms of alternative dispute resolution, and litigation when required.
• Complex property settlements involving trusts, private businesses, SMSFs, tax considerations and intergenerational wealth issues.
• Binding Financial Agreements, separation agreements and risk‑management strategies.
• Cross‑jurisdictional matters (interstate and international).
• Complex parenting matters including family violence, abuse concerns, relocations, child abduction, adoption and matters involving gender dysphoria.
• Spousal maintenance and child support departure applications.

Private Wealth, Succession & Estates

• Personal and business asset‑protection strategies.
• Business succession planning and family‑continuity structures.
• Estate planning for complex family circumstances, high‑risk litigation settings and cross‑border assets.
• Preparing governance and transition documents including trust‑deed variations, constitutions, superannuation documents and family‑governance frameworks.
• Support for family offices, including family constitutions, advisory board implementation and facilitation of family meetings.
• Grants of probate and letters of administration, including matters involving capacity challenges or questions of validity.
• Estate and trust administration, including complex structures requiring Court intervention.
• Estate and trust litigation including family‑provision claims, interpretive disputes, statutory will applications and contested administration matters.