Constantina Demetriou
Principal Lawyer
+61 3 8600 6063
cdemetriou@aitken.com.au
Constantina Demetriou
Areas of Law: Family Law
Qualifications: Bachelor of Arts I Bachelor of Laws I Graduate Diploma Legal Education
Office Location: Melbourne
Languages: Greek
Constantina Demetriou is a principal at Aitken Partners, and the Head of the Family Law Department. Constantina has spent her entire legal career in family law and is known for her strategic and pragmatic approach to resolving family law matters.
Constantina understands the financial and emotional toll of separation and works closely with her clients to ensure they are fully informed and supported throughout the process. She is dedicated to helping clients achieve commercially sound and timely outcomes, with a strong focus on early resolution through negotiation and pre-litigation dispute resolution wherever possible.
Constantina is recognised for her calm, clear communication and her ability to manage emotionally sensitive issues with professionalism and care. Her clients value her for both her technical skill and her dedication to achieving fair, practical results.
Constantina is particularly interest in complex financial matters, as well as high conflict parenting disputes. She has been appointed as an Independent Children’s Lawyer (ICL) in numerous matters before the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia, reflecting her deep understanding of complex family dynamics and child-focused outcomes.
Constantina’s core expertise lies in complex property settlements as well as high conflict parenting disputes, including matters involving:
- Financial matters, involving property settlements, where there are various complex corporate structures and trusts.
- Parentings matters, including time spent with each parent and decision-making responsibilities.
- Interstate and international relocations cases.
- Representing clients with high-value asset pools.
- Representing clients with family businesses and intergenerational wealth.
- Disputes involving overseas assets.
- Superannuation splitting (including self-managed super funds).
- Third-party financial interests and contested loans or gifts.
- Allegations of non-disclosure or asset concealment.
- Spousal maintenance.
- Child support.
- Divorce applications.
- LGBTQIA+
- Drafting Financial Agreements.
Case Studies
- Constantina was successful in making an application to the Court, to have a prenuptial agreement set aside for a very vulnerable client. The vulnerable client, was forced to sign the agreement a few days before marriage, by her spouse without being provided the requisite legal advice about the prenuptial agreement
- Constantina acted for a party who sought to protect the child of the relationship from spending time with the violent parent. The case ran through to a Trial, where it was determined by the Judge, that the child would not spend time with the violet parent.
- Constantina was successful, in representing a client who had their child taken away, by the other parent, to a different state, from where the child usually lived. The court agreed that the child should be returned to the state where the child usually lived.