Abib Ngom was the successful counsel at the Supreme Court of British Columbia in a groundbreaking case of wrongful retention of a child: Bakker v. Bakker. The Story A husband, wife, and their four-year-old child were all citizens of New…
William DeWolf was the successful counsel at the Supreme Court of British Columbia in the relocation case of N.W. v. L.V. The Story A couple began cohabitating in Hazleton, British Columbia in May 2008 and separated in August 2013 The…
Groundbreaking case on Child Abduction, Wrongful Removal of Children and Wrongful Retention of Children. YLaw's latest BC Supreme Court Case has become one of the most important cases in the entire history of British Columbia on Child Abduction and Wrongful Removal. This…
Harry Saini was the successful counsel in the residential tenancy litigation case Li v. Virk at the Supreme Court of British Columbia. The Story In December 2018, Ms. Li agreed to pay the Landlord of a Richmond property $2500 for…
Child Removal, International Custody, Parenting Time This was a case which made local, national and international headlines. It spans several countries and took more than 5 years to resolve. During those 5 years, the mother did not allow the father…
Leena Yousefi and Abib Ngom were successful counsel in the precedent-setting case of Storey v. Terry. In this case, the wife applied for an unequal division of family property, an unequal division of family debt. Her Appeal was unsuccessful. As…
Leena Yousefi was successful counsel on the appeal of a very complicated international, high net worth family law case. Her client was ordered to produce documents which infringed on her right to privacy. She appealed the lower court's decision and…
Ari Wormeli was successful counsel on this parenting and relocation case: one parent had relocated to Victoria, citing COVID concerns without notice. Ari was able to have the child returned to Vancouver despite an initial court finding that the relocation…
In yet another groundbreaking case in 2017, YLaw was able to obtain more than $116,000 in contempt fines in addition to special costs. This marks the highest family law contempt award in the history of British Columbia. The Story - Contempt…
Ari Wormeli was successful in Long v. Sun where the opposing party sought to impute Ari’s client an income of $500,000. Ari was successful in keeping the client’s income down to his T4 income, approximately $39,000 in addition to winning…
Ari Wormeli was successful in the BC Court of Appeal case of Khan v. Gilbert: he successfully appealed this case where a lower court’s decision had awarded only a 15% share of family property to his client on a 4-year…
Vancouver Interim Distribution - preventing the wife from using family assets to pay for her legal fees. Leena Yousefi, voted the top family lawyer in BC, was recently successful in preventing the wife from obtaining $80,000 from the family assets…
Case: Lee v. Chung Short Term Marriage and long term separation, Child Support, Spousal Support and BC Property Division I was honoured to be the counsel on the case of Lee vs. Chung. This was a case about a short…
Case: J. V. v. W.B (Oral Reasons) BC Exclusive Use of Family Home, Family Asset Division, BC Spousal Support, BC Occupational Rent, Damages and Special Costs. In this case, I represented the wife in a very unusual family case to…
Case: A.L. v. K.H. 2013 BCSC 1943 (Written Reasons) Child Custody, Conduct of Parents, Parenting Obligations and Stability In this case, I represented the mother who had a lovely 3-year-old boy. The boy primarily resided with her and there was…
Moradkhan v. Mofidi [2011] B.C.J. No. 1624 (Written Reasons) Property Division, the Importance of Obtaining Proper Valuation, Spousal Support In this case, a final judgment had already been rendered providing the wife with 55% of the family assets and the…
Moradkhan v. Mofidi (Written Reasons) Court Procedure The Court of Appeal of BC overturned the above judgment and sent it back to the trial judge because it determined we provided proper values too late and after the first judgment. The…
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