Updated: August 21st, 2021 | Toronto | Lawyer List R | Shawyer Family Law | Family Law,
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Address: 504-3200 Dufferin St, Toronto, ON, M6A 3B2
Lawyer Firm: Shawyer Family Law
Phone: (416) 398-4044
Fax: (416) 640-5855
Email: robert@shawyerlaw.ca
Website: www.shawyerlaw.ca
First Year of Call | 2006 |
Areas of Practice | Family Law |
Description | Robert obtained his law degree at the University of Windsor after attaining a Master of Arts from Wilfrid Laurier University. He was called to the Bar in 2006. He is also a graduate of the Rotman Independent Director’s Course in Not For Profit Governance.
He is the principal of Shawyer Family Law and Mediation PC. Robert regularly speaks at Continuing Professional Development seminars focusing on family law hosted by the various Toronto area Courthouse Bench and Bar Committees, the law Society of Ontario and the Ontario Bar Association. In 2016 through 2018 Robert was lead counsel for the Applicant Mother in the seminal family law case, Coates v. Watson, which focused on the issue of whether Ontario Child Support Law as it was written prior to December 14, 2017 was discriminatory. Due to Robert’s advocacy Ontario’s child support law was declared discriminatory and Ontario child support legislation was amended on December 14, 2017 to allow for ongoing and indefinite child support for disabled children born to unmarried parents who have separated. The Coates case has been extensively written about in the Toronto Star and other publications such as the Law Times beginning on November 19, 2017 in an Article by the Toronto Star’s Laurie Monsebraaten entitled “The Son, the Father and the Law”. Since acting as lead counsel Robert has acted as counsel in numerous other case involving disabled child and the issue of ongoing child support, which has led to the development of the body of caselaw in Ontario that is used to determine when a disable child is entitled to child support and the amount of child support that disabled children are entitled to on an ongoing basis. In 2014 and 2016 respectively Robert was trained and accredited as Collaborative Family Law lawyer and a Certified Family Law Mediator. As a result Robert’s practice focuses on building partnerships with his clients by using their knowledge of themselves and their family and combining it with his expertise in the area of family law, negotiation and settlement advocacy to support and empower clients to reach solutions that meet their short-term and long-term goals. |
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