Stanchieri Family Law

About Stanchieri Family Law

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Stanchieri Family Law is a small firm in downtown Toronto that practices exclusively in family law. It was founded in 2008 and takes its name from founder Julie Stanchieri, a family lawyer who has practiced since 2002 and also works as an accredited mediator and arbitrator. Stanchieri holds an Hon. B.A. from McMaster University, an LL.B. from the University of Toronto, and an LL.M. from Osgoode Hall Law School, and is certified in collaborative family law in addition to mediation and arbitration accreditations. The team now includes several other family lawyers who handle matters through negotiation, mediation, collaborative family law, arbitration, and litigation.

The firm structures its services around standard, basic, and limited retainers, letting clients choose full representation or narrower legal advice depending on the complexity of their matter. Its work covers the usual range of separation and divorce issues, support and property division, and parenting disputes, along with less common files: cross-border matters involving the Hague Convention on international child abduction and the enforcement of foreign family orders, and claims under the newer tort of intimate partner violence recognized by the Supreme Court of Canada. The firm's blog, written by Stanchieri, tracks developments like that ruling alongside plain-language explanations of support and property division rules.