Core Family Roles

The people supporting your family

Each professional has a clearly defined role. They work together through the family roadmap while remaining within their qualifications and professional responsibilities.

Family Transition Manager

Your primary point of contact throughout the process. The Family Transition Manager helps you understand what needs to happen, coordinates the team and keeps the different parts of the separation connected.

They maintain the family roadmap, organise meetings and professional handovers, track actions and timeframes, record agreed decisions and help establish manageable communication arrangements. They also help keep relevant information and documents organised in one controlled location.

The Family Transition Manager coordinates the process but does not make decisions for your family or provide legal, financial, therapeutic or parenting advice.

Typical outputs: Family induction, roadmap, priorities and milestones, action register, decision record, meeting summaries, communication arrangements, progress updates and implementation tracker.

Individual Wellbeing Practitioner

Provides confidential emotional support to one parent, helping them manage grief, stress, uncertainty and the many changes that can accompany separation.

Many people have valuable support from family and friends. We also want to ensure that each parent has access to appropriate individual support during this important period. The practitioner is matched to the person’s needs and may be separately engaged outside Family.Reimagined.

Information discussed with an Individual Wellbeing Practitioner remains confidential, subject to that practitioner’s legal and professional obligations.

Typical outputs: Individual emotional support, practical coping strategies, a personal wellbeing or support plan, and referrals to other services where appropriate. No private counselling or therapeutic record forms part of the shared family record.

Family Redesign Specialist

Helps parents design practical arrangements for family life across two households, based on the children’s individual needs and the family’s real circumstances.

This may include care arrangements, routines, schooling, childcare, holidays, transport, communication, important decisions, family responsibilities and how arrangements may need to change as children grow. The specialist helps parents identify areas of agreement, explore workable options and consider how proposed arrangements will operate in everyday life.

Where included in the service, the Family Redesign Specialist may also check in with each parent during implementation and help identify practical adjustments or areas requiring further support.

Typical outputs: Children’s needs and routines summary, parenting options, agreed practical arrangements, draft or agreed Parenting Plan, open-issues list and implementation feedback or adjustment plan.

The Parenting Plan can be provided to each parent’s independent lawyer for legal advice or used to support the preparation of consent orders where appropriate.

Financial Transition Specialist

Helps organise and clarify the family’s financial position so both parents can better understand the practical implications of establishing two households.

The Financial Transition Specialist gathers and structures information about assets, liabilities, income, expenses, superannuation, housing and future needs. They identify missing information, develop household budgets and model possible financial and property arrangements for consideration.

Where specialist input is required, they may help coordinate valuers, accountants, tax advisers, mortgage brokers, lenders or other appropriately qualified professionals.

The Financial Transition Specialist does not provide legal, tax, accounting, credit or personal financial advice unless separately qualified and specifically engaged to do so.

Typical outputs: Financial disclosure checklist, document register, asset and liability schedule, two-household budgets, cash-flow information, assumptions and information gaps, valuation or specialist referral list, and one or more modelled financial or property options for independent legal and specialist advice.

Independent Legal Advisor for Each Parent

Each parent has their own independent family lawyer. That lawyer acts only for their client and provides confidential advice about their legal rights, responsibilities, risks and available options.

The lawyer reviews the parenting and financial arrangements developed through the Family.Reimagined process and advises their client whether to proceed, request changes, obtain further information or consider another pathway.

Family.Reimagined may provide an authorised factual and document pack to each lawyer, but each parent’s confidential legal advice remains between that parent and their lawyer unless the parent authorises information or instructions to be shared.

When both parents are ready to formalise an agreement, one lawyer may prepare the documents and the other may review them on behalf of their client. The lawyers may communicate through agreed channels to resolve drafting issues, but each continues to act independently.

Typical outputs: Confidential legal advice, review of proposed parenting and financial arrangements, advice on amendments or further information required, client instructions, formal agreements or proposed consent orders, and assistance with signing, filing and responding to any court requirements.