Audrey A. Shecter
Audrey Shecter is a Certified Specialist in Family Law and a partner at Beard Winter LLP. She practises exclusively in the area of family law. Audrey represents and assists clients on a wide range of matters such as property division, parenting and access, child support, spousal support, cohabitation agreements, and marriage contracts.
Audrey Shecter is a Certified Specialist in Family Law and a partner at Beard Winter LLP. She practises exclusively in the area of family law. Audrey represents and assists clients on a wide range of matters such as property division, parenting and access, child support, spousal support, cohabitation agreements, and marriage contracts.
Audrey Shecter is a Certified Specialist in Family Law and a partner at Beard Winter LLP. She practises exclusively in the area of family law. Audrey represents and assists clients on a wide range of matters such as property division, parenting and access, child support, spousal support, cohabitation agreements, and marriage contracts. A highly skilled advocate, Audrey regularly and successfully appears before all levels of court in Ontario, on behalf of her clients, as well as at mediations and arbitrations. Clients appreciate Audrey’s common sense and cost-effective approach in demystifying the family law legal process and resolving conflict. Audrey is a member of the Canadian Bar Association’s Family Law Section, the Toronto Lawyers’ Association, the Advocates’ Society, and the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts. She is also accredited in the practice of Collaborative Law, and acts as an Advisor for the Law Society of Upper Canada’s Coach and Advisor Network for lawyers and paralegals. Most importantly, Audrey is the proud mother of three children.
- Ontario Bar Association, Family Law Section
- Association of Family and Conciliation Courts
- Canadian Bar Association
- Toronto Lawyer's Association
- The Advocates' Society
- Docherty v Catherwood, 2016 ONSC 2140 (CanLII) — 2016-03-30
Obtained strong finding of contempt against mother who relied on self-created evidence to deny father’s access visits with sons.
- Docherty v. Catherwood, 2013 ONSC 5220 (CanLII) — 2013-08-15
Co-counsel at trial with highly successful outcomes on issues of father’s income, spousal and child support, parenting, and equalization, including valuation of father’s business.
- Tollinsky v. Tollinsky, 2011 ONCA 35 (CanLII) — 2011-01-13
Court of Appeal emphatically dismissed wife’s appeal of motion judge’s finding that offer to settle, accepted by husband, was a binding agreement.
- De Melo v Gooding, 2010 84 R.F.L. (6th) 369 (Ont. S.C.J.)
Continued conflict between parents after a custody order may constitute a material change in circumstances.
- Jiwaji v. Jiwaji, 2008 CanLII 56934 (ON SC) — 2008-11-04
Wholly successful in obtaining trial decision preventing mother from moving with children from Canada to Kenya.
- Litman v. Sherman, 2008 ONCA 485 (CanLII) — 2008-06-18
Co-counsel in Court of Appeal reversal of trial decision containing critical and often-cited principle that jurisdiction to vary an existing custody and access order is dependent upon an explicit finding of a material change in circumstances since the previous order.
- February 25, 2022 — Beard Winter LLP lawyers recognized in the 2022 Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory
- October 24, 2019 — Audrey Shecter co-moderates TLA family law seminar
- August 20, 2019 — Beard Winter LLP lawyers named to 2020 Best Lawyers™
- September 11, 2018 — Audrey Shecter chairs TLA family law seminar
- January 29, 2018 — Father faces jail time for failing to pay child support
- September 25, 2017 — OCA rules on amicus rates
- January 24, 2017 — Parents count the hours to pass 40 per cent test
- October 17, 2016 — What a Family Lawyer Needs to Know