OUR AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Family and Probate Practice

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” – Leo Tolstoy

Divorce is an emotionally draining and frustrating experience to be put through. For all the issues that can arise during the challenging and stressful times of a marriage breakdown and life transition, we are committed to providing comprehensive, creative and compassionate advice to protect your interests and achieve fair, practical and cost-effective resolutions.

Our expertise and services include matters of divorce, child custody, access and maintenance, spousal support and division of property.

We understand that your foremost concern is making sure that you and/or your children are treated fairly.

We are committed to protecting your rights and prosecuting your interests with a personalised touch and sensitive approach in the following areas of matrimonial litigation:

• • • Contested and uncontested matrimonial proceedings;
    • All manner of interlocutory applications such as discovery and interrogatories;
    • Injunctive relief to prevent the dissipation of matrimonial assets; and
    • Taking out contempt of Court proceedings to procure compliance to Court orders.

Our Probate Practice includes:

• • • Will drafting;
    • Applying for letters of administration or grants of probate; and
    • Acting and advising clients in contested probate matters.

The firm has won industry recognition for its work. Our noteworthy cases include:

• • • Acted for a Plaintiff-Wife in hotly-contested divorce proceedings, involving multiple injunctions and custody applications, and successfully obtaining a settlement of $4 million (2019 to 2021)
    • Acted for Datin Sandra Kuah (1998 to 2003) in winning a $29 million divorce settlement
    • Successfully winning custody for an expatriate mother in a cross-border tussle over two young children