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Screening for Financial Abuse

October 29, 2026

alarm 12:00PM - 2:00PM (PCT)

Vicky Law, Samantha Clarke
verified2.0 CPD Credit
play_lesson 2 hours
local_offer CA$200

Learn how to:

  • Screen for financial abuse

  • Create an evidenciary record to demonstrate financial abuse

  • Draft clear, concise, and enforceable financial disclosure and support orders

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This session will provide you with important tools and skills to assist in financial abuse cases in the critical period before and immediately after separation. Intentional planning and action can greatly impact outcomes for clients who experience financial abuse.

You will learn:

  • How to screen for financial abuse both pre and post separation, including unique examples of financial abuse that we have seen on the front-lines.

  • Takeaway questions for clients to help identify next steps.

  • How to create an evidentiary record to demonstrate financial abuse.

  • How to draft clear, concise, and enforceable financial disclosure and support orders.

Sign up today and learn how to handle financial abuse cases with confidence.

Prepare early and strengthen your case

"Knowing how to screen for financial abuse, how to create an evidentiary record, and what steps to take before separation can have a lasting impact on a client's financial security and legal outcomes. This session helps lawyers develop a proactive approach to protecting and advancing their clients' economic interests."

— Vicky Law, Co-Instructor

About the Instructors

Vicky Law (she/her) is the Executive Director of Rise Women’s Legal Centre, where she leads a team providing legal services to over 2,000 women and gender-diverse people in British Columbia each year. She delivers training for lawyers and support workers across the province on working with clients who have experienced violence and contributes to systemic legal reform through policy development and litigation.

She continues to provide mentorship and support to the next generation of lawyers through Rise’s student legal clinic, articling students, and junior lawyer programs.

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Samantha Clarke - Sammy (she/her) is a Family Law Advocate with the Virtual Legal Clinic at Rise. In this role, she supports women and gender diverse people around BC, outside of the lower mainland. The majority of the clients she works with are navigating complex family law matters and continue to be impacted by past on ongoing family violence.

Sammy has a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Social Work from the University of British Columbia and has worked in various sectors, supporting clients who face social, societal, and economic barriers to navigate systems and find ways forward. While supporting clients in communities all around BC, Sammy is privileged to live on the traditional territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

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Can’t make it? This course will be available on-demand for registrants.

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