Who is the Family law expert?
Bertus Preller, the Family law expert, is a director and co-founder of Divorce Attorney (DA). He was admitted as an Attorney of the High Court in 1989. Prior to co-founding DA, Bertus was Managing Director and co-founder of Van Wyk & Preller Attorneys in Bloemfontein, a director of Honey & Partners Attorneys in Cape Town and founder of technology companies SmartSurv Wireless, DigiWords, CellBook, eSplash and eLaw initiatives such as eDivorce, eWills and eTrust.
Preller was also a past Part Time Commissioner at the CCMA, an Arbitrator and Mediator at various Bargaining Councils, an Appeals Authority for the South African Police Services, and has acted in a number of high profile matters in all different levels of court in South Africa. Preller has also negotiated the contracts of rugby players on behalf of the SARFU Rugby unions, and more recently advised a number of South African Book Publishers on the Google Book Settlement.
Matriculating from Grey College in Bloemfontein, and graduating from the University of the Orange Free State in 1988 (cum laude - Criminal Procedure), Preller did his articles at Symington & De Kok Attorneys in Bloemfontein.
Preller specializes in Family Law issues, such as, access, adoption, biological fathers' rights, grandparent's rights, divorce (uncontested & contested), divorce mediation, divorcing a missing spouse, same-sex and other non-marital life partnership agreements, parenting plans, maintenance and antenuptial agreements.
