Summary: Yulie Paizes is a Practicing Attorney who has right of appearance in the High Court of South Africa and was admitted to practice as a legal practitioner in September 2001. Yulie is a specialist family law practitioner, commercial drafting attorney, and a commercial litigator. Yulie is further a Commercial and Family Law mediator, as well as Ad Hoc arbitrator having been trained through AFSA. Yulie Paizes runs her own law practice known as Paizes Attorneys and is the managing director of Conflict Dispute Resolution Services (Pty) Ltd, a mediation and arbitration company.
Yulie is the owner and director of Paizes Attorneys Inc.
Yulie is a specialist family law litigation attorney holding a Master’s degree specialising in Family Law (in which she completed her dissertation in The Position of Unmarried Fathers in South Africa and has over 2 decades of experience in Family Law. She specialises mainly in the following fields of family law:
- All forms of High Court Family Law Litigation.
- Divorce and matrimonial high court litigation including but not limited to Rule 43 applications.
- All forms of Child Law litigation including but not limited to Section 24 and Section 22 parental responsibility and rights litigation.
- All Forms of Parental Responsibilities and Rights Applications including international child abductions and Hague Convention applications.
- Domestic violence; Maintenance; Parental rights and responsibility agreements; Settlement agreements; Parental plans; Cohabitation agreements; Civil Union Agreements.
Yulie further has over 23 years’ experience practising in commercial drafting, commercial and corporate litigation which involves but is not limited to financial and property-related issues as well as contract disagreements, which derive from counterproductive business relationships, unresolved business transactions, and other conflicts. Yulie is highly proficient and effective in this litigation.
Yulie has developed a skillset which has taught her the art of strategy and tactical planning and has earned her a widely known reputation as a strategist draftsman and litigator. Yulie has attended on countless courses, seminars, conferences and webinars which has enabled her to run a successful litigation practice, both in Family Law and Commercial Litigation.
Yulie has completed her training as an arbitrator and mediator through Arbitration Foundation of South Africa in conjunction with the University of Pretoria and is further Managing Director of Conflict Dispute Resolution Services Pty) Ltd, an arbitration and mediation services consultancy company. Yulie has completed the Advanced Programme in Alternative Dispute Resolution and is proficient in the principles and procedures used in family law conflict management and dispute resolution. Yulie not only represents clients in arbitrations and assists clients in mediations but is further an ad hoc arbitration and mediator, as well as an AFSA arbitrator and mediator.
Yulie’s is highly accomplished, and her tertiary education spanning over 30 years period:
University: University of Cape Town (UCT)
Degree: Bachelor of Social Sciences (1994 – 1996) (Majoring in Industrial Sociology and Politics)
University: University of Cape Town (UCT)
Degree: Bachelor of Laws (LLB) (1997 – 1999)
University: University of South Africa (UNISA)
Degree: Master of Laws (LLM – Specialising in Family Law and Child Law) (2006-2007)
University: Arbitration Foundation of South Africa in conjunction with the University of Pretoria
Programme: Programme in Advanced Dispute Resolution (2023) Mediation (Commercial Law) and Arbitration (in several commercial fields being International, Labour, Construction and Commercial) – Passed cum laude.