Family Lawyers Serving Vancouver

If you're searching for a family lawyer in Vancouver, here is the honest version up front: SiLaw Group Family Lawyers has one office, and it is not downtown. We are a boutique firm practising family law and mediation exclusively from 3108 Croydon Drive, Suite 201 in South Surrey. Family law in BC is the same law on either side of the Fraser, and most Vancouver clients run their entire file with us by video and phone without ever crossing a bridge for it.

How We Work with Vancouver Clients

A family file is mostly conversations and documents: advice, financial disclosure, negotiation, drafting a separation agreement, mediation sessions. All of it works over video, which is often easier to fit around a Vancouver work day than any office visit would be. When something genuinely benefits from being in the same room, our South Surrey office is about an hour away, and we will tell you early which steps, if any, are worth the trip.

Where Vancouver Family Court Cases Are Heard

Vancouver's two family courthouses sit a short walk apart downtown. Provincial Court family matters (parenting orders, child and spousal support, and family protection orders) are heard at the Robson Square Provincial Court, 800 Hornby Street. Supreme Court matters, which include the divorce order itself and the division of family property and debt, are dealt with at the Vancouver Law Courts, 800 Smithe Street. Which court your matter belongs in is part of the first conversation, and most separations resolve through a negotiated agreement or mediation without either building.

What We Help Vancouver Clients with

• Divorce, including uncontested divorce
• Parenting time and decision-making
• Child support and spousal support
• Dividing property and debt
• Common-law separation and cohabitation agreements
• Family violence and protection orders
• Mediation, arbitration and parenting coordination, run in-house because Sandy Sihota is an accredited family law mediator, arbitrator and parenting coordinator

ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਵਿੱਚ ਸੇਵਾਵਾਂ for Vancouver Families

We provide services in English and Punjabi. If Punjabi is the language your family is most comfortable in, the advice, the documents and the hard conversations can all happen in it, by video or phone like everything else. See our Punjabi services page.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do You Have a Vancouver Office?

No. Our only office is at 3108 Croydon Drive, Suite 201 in South Surrey, and we would rather tell you that plainly than imply otherwise. Vancouver clients work with us by video and phone for most steps, and some choose to run the whole file that way.

If My Vancouver Matter Goes to Court, Where Would That Be?

Provincial Court family matters are heard at the Robson Square Provincial Court at 800 Hornby Street. Supreme Court matters, including the divorce order and property division, are dealt with at the Vancouver Law Courts at 800 Smithe Street, a short walk away. Most families never need either courtroom.

Why Choose a Surrey Firm for a Vancouver File?

Because the law, the forms and the process are provincial, not municipal, and because a boutique firm can offer something many downtown firms structure differently: the same senior lawyer on your file throughout, mediation run in-house, and the first 30 minutes free. If those fit what you're looking for, geography is the easy part.

Do You Advise Vancouver Clients in Languages Other Than English?

Yes, in Punjabi. English and Punjabi are the two languages we provide services in. See ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਵਿੱਚ ਸੇਵਾਵਾਂ.

Talk to a Family Lawyer About Your Vancouver Matter, Free

The first 30 minutes are free, by video or phone from anywhere in Vancouver, or in person at our South Surrey office. Book a free consultation or call (778) 381-9977.

This page is legal information, not legal advice.