MatthewsFolbigg, a firm based in Parramatta, NSW, has merged with WatsonStafford Family Lawyers.

As part of the merger, the former principal and a partner of WatsonStafford, Carolyn Munk, has come on board at MatthewsFolbigg as a director in the family law group.

Munk has specialised in family law since the late 1980s. She has been an accredited specialist in family law since 1993 and she is also the former deputy registrar at the Family Court.