Karen is an experienced employment, family law, and estate litigation lawyer at our Langley office. She has a proven track record of delivering successful outcomes, even in the most overwhelming and complex cases. Karen believes that a trusting relationship with her clients is key to achieving positive results.
Employment Law
In her employment law practice, Karen takes a strategic, practical, and results-driven approach when advising both employers and employees. For employers, she proactively manages workplace risk through tailored policies and compliance frameworks that prevent costly disputes. She guides organizations through employment contracts, exit agreements, and termination matters while ensuring full legal compliance.
When representing employees, Karen draws on her extensive experience to advise and advocate for individuals in all types of workplace disputes. She guides individuals through a wide range of workplace disputes, including navigating wrongful or constructive dismissal claims, negotiating severance packages, addressing workplace harassment, and resolving human rights complaints and restrictive covenant issues involving non-competition and non-solicitation agreements.
Family Law
Karen focuses on high-stakes family law matters involving complex financial portfolios and business interests. She has extensive experience navigating the intricate challenges of dividing sophisticated assets, including closely-held corporations, professional practices, investment portfolios and real estate holdings. Her in-depth understanding of corporate structures and business valuations ensures clients receive their fair share of marital assets, regardless of complexity.
Karen handles a wide range of complex family issues, including separation and divorce, high-net-worth property division, spousal and child support, guardianship, relocation, parenting responsibilities, emergency protection orders, and adult adoptions.
Estate Litigation
Karen’s estate litigation practice centers on sophisticated matters involving substantial and complex assets. She represents beneficiaries, executors, trustees, and other interested parties in disputes that often span multiple generations and jurisdictions.
She skillfully advances and defends issues of will fairness and validity, disinheritance disputes, and family provision claims where beneficiaries seek to challenge estate distributions. Karen handles wills variation actions under the Wills, Estates and Succession Act, helping clients secure adequate provision from an estate when a will fails to make reasonable arrangements for a spouse or child.
Karen also tackles allegations of negligent or fraudulent estate administration, holding executors and trustees accountable for breaches of their fiduciary duties. She addresses challenges to testamentary capacity and undue influence, particularly in cases involving vulnerable testators or suspicious circumstances surrounding will preparation.
Karen understands that estate disputes often involve deeply personal family dynamics and generational wealth. She approaches each case with sensitivity while providing the strategic expertise needed to protect her clients’ inheritance rights and financial interests.
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