Valarie Matthews
Partner
Valarie provides strategic and practical advice to her clients to help them achieve their family law goals. She acts for clients at all levels of court in Ontario and in private mediations and arbitrations to assist them in resolving their family law disputes including complex financial and parenting issues. She regularly works with experts to obtain business and income valuations for self-employed and high net worth individuals.
Valarie has acted as lead counsel and co-counsel on complex financial matters involving high net worth individuals that required valuation of family trusts and family businesses, income determinations, and legal issues pertaining to entitlement to and the appropriate quantum of spousal support. She has also been lead counsel and co-counsel on high conflict parenting matters that require parenting assessments.
Valarie is a graduate of Harvard Law School. She has practiced exclusively in the area of family law since 2016. She is an active member of the bar, contributing to continuing education programs through the Ontario Bar Association, Law Society of Ontario, and the Advocates’ Society.