Debtfree Magazine October 2017

ATTORNEY PROFILE | KIM ARMFIELD AND ASSOCIATES
What kind of services
do you offer / law do
you practise?
In my almost 20 years of practise
I have done a myriad of matters,
including collections, general
litigation, criminal matters, family
law, deceased estates, commercial
law (contracts) and more recently
family mediation. At present, I
specialise in debt review matters
and family law, but our practice
does attend to various other matters
which I oversee (and please note that
I generally refer to “our practice”
as opposed to “my practice” as
it takes a trusting team to make
a successful practice). Attorneys
and even magistrates had, at the
commencement of debt review,
viewed it as a somewhat inferior
area of legal practice (in fact, I was
once openly asked by a magistrate
why have I studied so many years
“just to do debt review”. Thankfully
I am not too concerned about
people’s perceptions and I do not
believe debt review to be inferior in
any way. I believe this perception
has since changed, as lawyers have
come to realise how dynamic debt
review can be. And at the end of
the day, it is all about people, as
opposed to lofty academic opinions.