Louise Peacock
Associate (BIS LLB)
Family & Relationship Law
Litigation
Louise joined Simmons Wolfhagen in 2006. Her primary focus is family law and she advises in relation to parenting orders, divorce proceedings, property settlements, family violence orders and restraint orders, and de facto relationship matters, including same-sex relationships.
Louise also works in the firm’s Litigation Department, advising on restraint order matters, traffic matters including licence disqualification and applications for restricted licences and other general criminal matters.
Louise appears regularly in the Family Court of Australia, the Federal Magistrates’ Court of Australia, the Magistrates Court of Tasmania and the Supreme Court of Tasmania. She has experience conducting hearings as well as attending court-appointed mediations and dispute resolution conferences at the Legal Aid Commission of Tasmania.
She is a member of the Law Society of Tasmania and the Tasmanian Women Lawyers and is the current secretary of the Family Law Practitioners Association of Tasmania.
Her interests outside work include sailing, diving, spending time with family and friends and spending time on the east coast of Tasmania.
