Our Legal Practice

AJ Family Law is boutique legal practice committed to providing prompt personal service from our highly experienced team.

In all areas of legal services that we provide, our team have more that many years of experience.

Your matter won’t be assigned to a junior solicitor or para-legal after the first meeting regardless of the importance or difficulty of your legal matter.

Our approach to each client matter is hands on with all aspects saving the need for double handling saving our time which reduces the costs you will pay.

Our firm achieves an exceptionally high success rate for our client’s due to our experience in negotiating to get wherever possible the absolute best result for you.

The trust we develop with our clients is the foundation of our relationships.

About Our Firm

Providing high quality legal services in the best interests of our clients.

We value every client and treat every matter with the priority it deserves.

We pride ourselves on working closely with our clients this being achieved through listening to our client’s and having regular communication with them.

Relationships we have with our client’s is built on providing a high level of legal expertise, honest advice and more than 20 years of experience.

Our Principal, Andy Johnston like many other sole practitioners in the legal profession had a life before practicing law where for many years he worked in sales and marketing. It was a retired Family Court Judge whom Andy met as a real estate agent and sold she and her husband a farm that persuaded him to change his career and enrol to study law. After graduating in 1994 followed by a period as an articled clerk and then post graduate study at QUT, Andy was admitted in 1996. Having then qualified he commenced work as a solicitor in a general practice law firm primarily in the areas of family and criminal law.

Andy’s area of work since has been primarily in the area of family & de facto law and also a period which included personal injuries litigation.

Andy appears in all Queensland State Court jurisdictions, as well as having appeared in several other States Courts, and our Commonwealth’s Family, Federal Circuit Courts and Administrative Appeals Tribunal.

As one of the most experienced family lawyers on the Gold Coast, few others have near the experience and skill with mediations and negotiation which Andy possesses. This he attributes in part to his earlier work experience in sales and marketing. No doubt the wide experiences in his life with having worked from the age 17 in a wide variety of other fields assist in dealing with all sorts of situations that arise in a lawyers work.

Married father of two and grandfather to six, and being one of ten children himself, this has provided Andy with both empathy and also better insight into his client’s situations that many other lawyers don’t possess. It’s also Andy’s very practical approach that often helps client’s avoid the need to go to court, in most cases allowing AJ Family Law to resolve our client’s matters by way of negotiation and mediation, thereby avoiding our client’s the significant additional costs, delay and the distress associated with court proceedings.

Let AJ Family Law assist you with your legal matter.

Testimonials

I would just like to thank Andy for all his dedication, professionalism, guidance, loyalty and faith in a very difficult and long Family Law matter regarding Superannuation. If it wasn't for Andy and his complete knowledge and understanding of this matter and constant words of encouragement, I would not have ended up with such a very successful ending to this matter. I highly recommend Andy Johnston as legal representative on any Family Law matter as I know Andy will be thorough and will leave no stone unturned.
Thanks, Andy, for your commitment to my matter. Gail D.

I am thankful to Andy Johnston for all that he did for me in regard to my family law matters. The advice that I received was very reassuring and was at all times handled by Andy in a very professional manner. The way with which he listened and guided me throughout the process was very reassuring and genuine. I have no hesitation in recommending Andy to others who wish for skilled, efficient and knowledgeable assistance in regard to all matters with legal requirements. Thank you so very much.
Glenn B.

Links

Queensland Law Society http://www.qls.com.au/For_the_community

Family Dispute Resolution https://www.ag.gov.au/FamiliesAndMarriage/Families/FamilyDisputeResolution/Pages/default.aspx

Family Relationships Online https://www.familyrelationships.gov.au/

Family Court of Australia http://www.familycourt.gov.au/wps/wcm/connect/fcoaweb/family-law-matters/family-law-in-australia/the-law/the-law

Legal Aid Queensland http://www.legalaid.qld.gov.au/Find-legal-information/Relationships-and-children/Relationships/Separation