Schmidt Family Law

About Schmidt Family Law

Schmidt Family Law is a small firm in Waterdown, Ontario, and it practices exclusively in family law. Jesse Schmidt, the firm's lawyer, was called to the Ontario bar in 2015. Schmidt graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School with a J.D. in 2014, in the top 15% of the class, and picked up the Carl Orbach, Q.C. Prize in Family Law and the Justice M.M. Van Camp Prize in Family Law that same year. Before law school, Schmidt earned an Honours B.A. from Carleton University in 2010 and received the Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement as a top 3% graduate.

The firm's work covers equalization and division of family property, child and spousal support, parenting rights (the term now used instead of custody and access), and domestic contracts like marriage contracts, cohabitation agreements and separation agreements. It also handles pension and retirement questions that come up during separation, business valuations, and income determination for support, plus divorce and common law separation more generally. Schmidt has represented clients at every level of court in Ontario, from the Ontario Court of Justice up through the Court of Appeal, and holds memberships with the Law Society of Ontario, the Canadian Bar Association, the Ontario Bar Association's family law section, the Halton Law Association and the Hamilton Law Association.