Dan Bottrell

Background

About Dan Bottrell

I help business people, entrepreneurs and professionals resolve their family law issues with the least impact on their businesses, their careers, and their families. I have helped thousands of separated couples and families through separation and divorce. They have originated from the Gold Coast, where I practice, to places around Australia, and the world. My approach to family law is encapsulated in Dale Turner’s saying:"Power and wisdom is not our capacity to make war but our capacity to prevent it". As a parent, I have been able to appreciate the impact of relationship breakdown on children, and to help parents achieve durable parenting outcomes which shield their children from conflict. But my real love is ‘the numbers’ – helping those couples and families develop financial solutions, without having to go to court. I have been privileged to work with some of Australia’s most successful entrepreneurs and their families as they navigate family breakdown situations. My experience is that there is a fascinating ‘story’ behind my clients and their enterprises – I am always excited by seeing how business people have grown their businesses and careers, and in hearing from them how they have achieved success. While family law is a litigious area, most of my work is done out of court – that is where I find that the best results for my clients can be achieved. Some of my most satisfying cases have been outcomes where families, and their family businesses, have been able to move beyond family breakdown without the trauma of litigation. Knowing that a business has been able to continue, and succeed, for the benefit of a family, but where things might have been very different, means that the family lawyers have been a small part of the future success of that enterprise. To leave a case having ‘built’ that result has ongoing satisfaction. My full curriculum vitae is at