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- ###### Bar Admission
  - Quebec, 2020
- ###### Education
  - LL.L., University of Ottawa, 2018
- ###### Languages Spoken
  - English, French, Russian
- ###### Groups & Associations
  - The Family Law Lawyers Association (AAADFQ)

##### Practice Areas

- [Family Law](https://goldwaterdroit.com/en/services/family-law)
- [Divorce & Separation](https://goldwaterdroit.com/en/services/divorce-separation)
- [Child & Spousal Support](https://goldwaterdroit.com/en/services/child-spousal-support)
- [Parenting, Custody & Access](https://goldwaterdroit.com/en/services/parenting-custody-access)
- [Asset & Property Division](https://goldwaterdroit.com/en/services/asset-property-division)
- [Constitutional & Appellate Litigation](https://goldwaterdroit.com/en/services/constitutional-appellate-litigation)
- [Marriage & Cohabitation Agreements](https://goldwaterdroit.com/en/services/marriage-cohabitation-agreements)
- [Religious Divorce & Faith-Based Marriage](https://goldwaterdroit.com/en/services/religious-divorce-faith-based-marriage)

**Natalie Shelkovsky** is an Associate at Goldwater Droit, where her practice covers the full range of family-law litigation: divorce and separation, custody and parenting arrangements, child and spousal support, and family asset partition.

During her university studies, Natalie had the opportunity to gain practical experience by working as a summer student in a family and immigration law firm. During her third year of law school, she also worked on a research project regarding the protection of children in the context of advertising.

Having a strong interest in family law, these experiences inspired her to work in this area of law and to focus her practice there, as soon as she became a lawyer in 2020. Before joining us, Natalie worked on several files independently in a firm specializing in family law, which allowed her to develop solid legal reflexes from the start of her career.

Armed with this background, Natalie regularly pleads before the Superior Court, particularly in the context of highly contested trials. She appears before the Superior Court in various high-conflict family disputes. Her family-law experience includes the partition of multi-million-dollar assets, the retroactive indexation of international child support against a parent residing in the United States, and the imputation of higher income to adverse parties in complex financial matters, as well as litigation involving custody, school choice, and judicial changes to a child’s surname. She has also defended a parent in a decade-long support file where the opposing party sought roughly $100,000 in arrears plus a 20% surcharge for alleged non-exercise of access rights.

Natalie earned her LL.L. from the University of Ottawa in 2018 and joined the Quebec Bar in 2020. Before joining Goldwater Droit, she practised independently at a family-law firm, building experience across contested matters early in her career. During law school, she worked as a summer student at a family and immigration firm and conducted research on the protection of children in advertising. She is a member of the Quebec Family Law Lawyers Association (AAADFQ).

She works in French, English, and Russian, and has a good knowledge of Spanish.

If not a lawyer, she would have become a psychologist, an instinct that shows in her work.

##### LITIGATION & PRACTICE HIGHLIGHTS

- [_Droit de la famille — 26135 (2026)_](https://canlii.ca/t/kjg80) - Acted for the defendant in a complex family law matter involving parental time-sharing, parental authority exercise, and property division. The Court redistributed parental time and clarified decision-making responsibilities. Matrimonial property settled with net equalization payment to plaintiff.
- [_Droit de la famille — 251117 (2025)_](https://canlii.ca/t/kdz29) - Appeared for the defendant mother in a lengthy parental dispute involving custody revision, parental authority disputes, and financial responsibilities. Court revisited 2022 judgment due to material changes including father's relocation. Parental time redistributed and financial obligations rebalanced.
- [_Bessette et Foisy (2024)_](https://canlii.ca/t/k6rq6) - Served as co-counsel to the defendants in Superior Court commercial litigation, helping to obtain the quashing of a Mareva injunction and the release of seized corporate shares; the Court declared the original injunction abusive and awarded costs to the defendants.
- [_Droit de la famille — 24284 (2024)_](https://canlii.ca/t/k3h1v) - Advised and represented the defendant mother in child support revision following a material change in circumstances and modification of a 2020 divorce judgment due to changing custody arrangements. The Court recalculated support obligations reflecting reduced parental responsibility and mother obtained a provisional provision for costs.
- [_Droit de la famille — 24970 (2024)_](https://canlii.ca/t/k5d3v) - Appeared for the mother in a Superior Court proceeding for international child support against a father residing in the United States; obtained retroactive indexation of support from 2015 to 2019, recalculation of support for 2019–2023 based on the father's increased US income, contribution to private school tuition and special expenses including speech therapy and summer camps (to remove), and a provision for costs.
- [_Droit de la famille — 22618 (2022)_](https://canlii.ca/t/jntmm) - Advocated for the father in a complex Superior Court family matter involving five children (ages 15 to 25) and spanning over a decade of litigation; the mother, a physician, claimed approximately $100,000 in child support arrears, post-secondary education costs, and a 20% surcharge for the father's non-exercise of access rights; the Court fixed graduated child support, ordered the father to contribute $700 per child per year toward private school costs, and rejected the mother's claim for a provision for costs.
- [_Droit de la famille — 211557 (2021)_](https://canlii.ca/t/jhk3t) - Appeared as counsel for the father in a Superior Court proceeding addressing three contested issues simultaneously: custody, school choice, and the child's surname; obtained a week-on/week-off shared custody arrangement, judicial authorization to change the child's family name with an order directing the _Directeur de l'état civil_ to amend the birth certificate, and maintenance of the child's enrollment at the father's preferred school.
- [_Droit de la famille — 201185 (2020)_](https://canlii.ca/t/j9c8m) - Advocated for a parent in an urgent Superior Court application over the choice of school for a child on the autism spectrum; the case required the Court to weigh the respective educational environments of two schools in different cities, considering the child's developmental delays in language and motor skills, and to render judgment before the start of the school year.