Law firm · Melbourne, Victoria
Doyle’s Guide listed Melbourne law firm with 1 ranking across 1 practice area
Trapski Family Law is a boutique family law practice working across Melbourne’s western growth corridor and the Geelong region. It is led by principal lawyer Alison Trapski, who is recognised in Doyle’s Guide 2026 as a Recommended family lawyer for regional Victoria.
The firm states on its own website that its principal has been accredited as a specialist by the Law Institute of Victoria since 2013. Accredited specialisation is a formal LIV credential requiring assessment in a defined area of law, and it is separate from — and independent of — the Doyle’s peer rankings shown below. It can be checked on the Law Institute of Victoria register.
Family law in Australia is federal, so the firm can act in matters anywhere in the country. Its two offices exist to serve two distinct local catchments rather than to limit where it practises.
Trapski Family Law lists seven people on its website. Five of them appear on the Victorian register of lawyers (checked 12 September 2026): the principal, who is registered as an accredited specialist in family law, and four employed solicitors, all nominating family law. The practice manager and the legal assistant are not on the register. Every profile below is independently published and funded by Lawyer Reviews Australia; the firm has not paid for, approved or endorsed them.
Alison TrapskiPrincipal lawyer
Adam TrapskiPractice Manager · Not a lawyer
Morgan MaddenSolicitor
Stacey RedsellSolicitor
Jessica MazzoneSolicitor
Madeline BrownSolicitor
Kiri KapuaLegal Assistant · Not a lawyer
Source: the firm’s published team page at tfl.net.au, reviewed 1 September 2026 and again 12 September 2026, and the Victorian register of lawyers (VLSB+C), checked 12 September 2026. The firm’s site does not publish individual roles: “Solicitor” is taken from the register, Adam Trapski’s and Kiri Kapua’s roles are taken from the biographies on the firm’s own website. Staff lists change; check with the firm before relying on this.
Universities and law degrees as published in the firm’s own staff biographies (indexed by search engines on 12 September 2026; the firm’s site currently redirects those pages to its homepage), with each university’s position in the QS World University Rankings 2027 (published 18 June 2026). Details have not been independently verified.
No University of Melbourne or Monash graduates. As at 12 September 2026, none of the five lawyers Trapski Family Law lists on its website is a graduate of the University of Melbourne (equal 22nd in the world and 2nd in Australia in the QS World University Rankings 2027) or Monash University (31st in the world and 5th in Australia), Victoria’s two highest-ranked universities. The team’s law degrees come from Deakin University, La Trobe University, Victoria University and the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, according to the firm’s own staff biographies. The firm’s practice manager and legal assistant are not lawyers, have never been lawyers, the firm has confirmed, and do not appear on the Victorian register of lawyers.
The firm offers a free 30-minute initial consultation with the principal. Three funding routes are available:
Trapski Family Law holds 4.2 stars from 31 Google reviews. Of those, 21 are positive with written detail, 4 are critical, and 6 are a star rating with no text.
The positive reviews carry the markers of genuine ones: most name the individual who did the work and describe a specific matter type — a property settlement, a binding financial agreement, a divorce, a parenting dispute — and they come from established accounts with a median of roughly 15 prior reviews, ten of them Google Local Guides. Bought reviews usually look the opposite: generic, no names, thin new accounts.
Of the four critical reviews, two give no detail, one from 2017 concerns a cancelled appointment rather than legal work, and one makes an adverse allegation that the firm has publicly answered by saying the reviewer was the opposing party rather than a client. We publish neither the allegation nor the response as fact, and all four can be read in full on Google. That reply is itself a concern: in it the firm has a go at the reviewer and identifies her as the other party to a matter in which it acted. Lawyer Reviews Australia has lodged a complaint with the Law Institute of Victoria about the reply.
Aggregated from the firm’s Google Business Profile, reviewed 1 September 2026. This is a firm-level rating and is not a rating of any individual lawyer.
Trapski Family Law is ranked across 1 practice area in the Doyle’s Guide peer survey of Victorian legal practitioners. Each ranking links back to the published Doyle’s Guide list.
1 individual practitioner at Trapski Family Law appears in Doyle’s Guide individual-lawyer rankings.
More: 106 further questions about Trapski Family Law answered → — comparisons with other Point Cook firms, Doyle’s tiers, booking, time limits, fees and reviews.
Trapski Family Law has two offices in Victoria: Suite 406, 111 Overton Road, Williams Landing VIC 3027, which serves Point Cook, Werribee, Hoppers Crossing, Tarneit and the wider Wyndham area; and 5/343 Pakington Street, Newtown VIC 3220, serving Geelong and the Bellarine Peninsula.
Alison Trapski is the principal lawyer. She is recognised in Doyle's Guide 2026 as a Recommended family lawyer for regional Victoria, and the firm states its principal has been accredited as a specialist by the Law Institute of Victoria since 2013.
The firm says first contact is usually with its Practice Manager or Office Manager rather than a lawyer. Its Practice Manager is Adam Trapski, who handles general enquiries, bookings and appointments, and account queries, and liaises with the principal lawyer about the conduct of a matter. He is not a lawyer; the free 30-minute initial consultation is with the principal.
The firm has advised Lawyer Reviews Australia that it now accepts legally aided family law matters alongside privately funded work. Eligibility for a grant of aid is decided by Victoria Legal Aid, not by the firm. This statement is supplied by the firm and has not been independently verified.
Yes. The firm offers a free 30-minute initial consultation with the principal, so you can understand your position and options before committing to anything.
Parenting arrangements, property settlement, divorce, consent orders and binding financial agreements, child support agreements, intervention orders where family violence is involved, victims of crime assistance, LGBTQIA+ family law, and wills, powers of attorney and probate.
The firm holds 4.2 stars from 31 Google reviews, and its principal is recognised in Doyle's Guide 2026 for regional Victoria. Of the 31 reviews, 21 are positive with written detail and 4 are critical. The positive reviews name individual staff and specific matter types, which are markers of genuine reviews rather than purchased ones.
Yes. Family law in Australia is federal, so the firm can act in matters anywhere in the country. Its two offices exist to serve local catchments, not to limit where it can practise.
Trapski Family Law practises through Trapski Pty Ltd. The Victorian register of lawyers, checked 12 September 2026, records principal Alison Trapski and four employed solicitors as practising at Trapski Pty Ltd, all in family law.
Five, as at 12 September 2026: principal Alison Trapski and employed solicitors Morgan Madden, Stacey Redsell, Jessica Mazzone and Madeline Brown, all on the Victorian register of lawyers. The firm’s other two team members, practice manager Adam Trapski and legal assistant Kiri Kapua, are not lawyers.
Alison Trapski, the principal and an accredited family law specialist; Morgan Madden, who joined the firm in 2015; Stacey Redsell, described by the firm as a senior lawyer, who joined in 2019; Jessica Mazzone, admitted in August 2022; and Madeline Brown, who joined in 2025. All five nominate family law on the Victorian register of lawyers.
According to the firm’s own staff biographies: Alison Trapski at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand; Morgan Madden and Madeline Brown at Deakin University; Stacey Redsell at Victoria University; and Jessica Mazzone at La Trobe University. In the QS World University Rankings 2027, Deakin is 14th of Australia’s 37 ranked universities, La Trobe 17th and Victoria University 32nd; none of the five is a University of Melbourne or Monash University graduate.
Yes. Trapski Family Law is a Recommended family and divorce law firm for regional Victoria in Doyle’s Guide 2026, and its principal Alison Trapski is a Recommended family lawyer on the corresponding individual list. The firm displays Doyle’s Guide family law seals for 2021 through 2026 on its website. Doyle’s rankings are produced by peer survey.
Yes. The firm states that where court appearances are required its team can often act as solicitor advocates in interim hearings. Parenting and property matters are heard in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia; intervention order matters for the firm’s catchment are generally heard at the Werribee or Geelong Magistrates’ Court.
The firm offers a free 30-minute initial consultation with the principal. Beyond that, costs must be disclosed in writing before work starts under the Legal Profession Uniform Law (Victoria). The firm is JustFund accredited for disbursement funding and has advised this site that it accepts legally aided family law matters; that statement was supplied by the firm and has not been independently verified.
As at 12 September 2026, Trapski Family Law had 33 Google reviews with an average of 4.2 stars. Lawyer Reviews Australia’s analysis of the first 31 found 21 positive reviews with written detail, 4 critical reviews and 6 star ratings with no text. The rating is a firm-level score, not a rating of any individual lawyer.
Adam Trapski is Trapski Family Law’s practice manager and usually the first person callers speak to: he answers calls, books appointments and handles accounts. He is not a lawyer and has never been one, as he told Lawyer Reviews Australia’s founder, and he does not appear on the Victorian register of lawyers, checked 12 September 2026.
Kiri Kapua is a legal assistant at Trapski Family Law according to the firm’s biography, having joined in June 2024 after relocating from Auckland, New Zealand, in 2023. Kiri Kapua is not a lawyer and does not appear on the Victorian register of lawyers, checked 12 September 2026.
No. This is an independently published profile funded by Lawyer Reviews Australia. Trapski Family Law has not paid for, approved or endorsed it, and the same applies to the profiles of its principal, solicitors and staff on this site. The firm’s Doyle’s Guide ranking is editorial and was not paid for.
Yes. Wills, powers of attorney and probate are among the areas the firm publishes on its website, alongside its core family law work in parenting arrangements, property settlement, divorce, consent orders, binding financial agreements, child support and intervention orders.
Yes. The firm’s Williams Landing office at Suite 406, 111 Overton Road serves Point Cook, Williams Landing, Werribee, Hoppers Crossing, Tarneit, Truganina, Altona Meadows and the wider Wyndham area. Intervention order matters for that catchment are generally heard at the Werribee Magistrates’ Court.
Yes. The firm publishes intervention order work, in the Magistrates’ Court where family violence is involved, among its areas of practice, and also lists victims of crime assistance applications. For the firm’s catchment these matters are generally heard at Werribee or Geelong.
The firm lists LGBTQIA+ family law among its published areas of practice, and its race car, pictured on this page, carries the progress pride flag in the firm’s livery. Lawyer Reviews Australia has not verified the firm’s services beyond what it publishes.
Yes, about one thing. In its public reply to a critical Google review the firm identifies the reviewer as the other party to a matter in which it acted. Lawyer Reviews Australia considers that reply a concern and has lodged a complaint with the Law Institute of Victoria about it. The firm’s rankings and the rest of its reviews are unaffected.
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