Ansky Family Law

About Ansky Family Law

Ansky Family Law is a solo family law practice based in Markham, run by Stephanie Ansky, a barrister and solicitor who has practiced law for 30 years, the last 25 of them focused on family law. The firm handles the full range of family law matters, including separation and divorce, decision-making responsibility and parenting time for children (what the law used to call custody and access), child and spousal support, division of property, and drafting separation agreements, cohabitation agreements, and marriage contracts.

The firm's approach favors negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and collaborative family law ahead of going to court, while still representing clients in litigation when a resolution can't be reached another way. Ansky works as both a collaborative family lawyer and a mediator, and can act either as a neutral mediator or as an advocate representing one side within a mediation process run by someone else. The firm's own site calls collaborative family law, where each side keeps a separate lawyer but the focus stays on interests rather than positions, the most rewarding of the processes it offers.