About
Ros’s property work includes settlements involving trusts, business structures, inheritances and farms. She has a particular interest in understanding complex financial arrangements, including superannuation, to help identify and address potential adverse outcomes. This includes working with clients’ superannuation and financial advisers. She also advises on child support, with a particular focus on helping clients prepare comprehensive child support agreements. Her work includes spousal maintenance and divorce. Her parenting work covers arrangements for where children live and the time they spend with their parents, as well as travel and relocation. She has also served on the panel of independent children’s lawyers. Alternative dispute resolution and conciliation are important to Ros’s approach. She supports clients through negotiation, conferencing and mediation, and prepares consent orders and financial agreements. Ros appears regularly in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia. She completed a combined Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws at the University of Tasmania and was admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Tasmania in 1992. She joined PWB in 1994. Since 2012, Ros has consistently been recognised in Doyle’s Guide to the Australian Legal Market as a recommended family and divorce and parenting lawyer, a leading parenting lawyer in 2026 and a leading family and divorce lawyer in 2027.
Doyle’s Guide recognition

2027
Leading
Family and Divorce
Tasmania

2026
Leading
Parenting and Children’s Matters
Tasmania

2026
Recommended
Family and Divorce
Tasmania

2025
Recommended
Family and Divorce
Tasmania

2025
Recommended
Parenting and Children’s Matters
Tasmania

2024
Recommended
Family and Divorce
Tasmania

2024
Recommended
Parenting and Children’s Matters
Tasmania

2023
Recommended
Family and Divorce
Tasmania

2022
Recommended
Family and Divorce
Tasmania
Doyle’s Guide’s family law rankings are based on peer nominations recognising lawyers’ expertise and abilities.
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