--- title: "Véronique Jacques ✦ Associate ✦ Goldwater Droit" meta: "og:description": "Meet Me Véronique Jacques, a dedicated family law and youth protection lawyer at Goldwater Droit. Fully bilingual, she advocates with compassion and expertise." "og:title": "Véronique Jacques ✦ Associate ✦ Goldwater Droit" description: "Meet Me Véronique Jacques, a dedicated family law and youth protection lawyer at Goldwater Droit. Fully bilingual, she advocates with compassion and expertise." --- ![Véronique Jacques](https://goldwaterdroit.com/_vercel/image?url=%2F_composites%2Fv1%2Fprofile%2Fveronique-jacques%2Fportrait@2x.webp&w=1280&q=100) ###### Our Team # Véronique Jacques [Email](https://goldwaterdroit.com/mailto:vj@goldwaterdroit.com) [**Book Now**](https://book.goldwaterdroit.com#book/service/33) [Email](https://goldwaterdroit.com/mailto:vj@goldwaterdroit.com) [**Book Now**](https://book.goldwaterdroit.com#book/service/33) - ###### Bar Admission - Quebec, 2014 - ###### Education - LL.B., University of Sherbrooke, 2013 - ###### Languages Spoken - English, French - ###### Groups & Associations - The Family Law Lawyers Association (AAADFQ) ##### Practice Areas - [Family Law](https://goldwaterdroit.com/en/services/family-law) - [Asset & Property Division](https://goldwaterdroit.com/en/services/asset-property-division) - [Divorce & Separation](https://goldwaterdroit.com/en/services/divorce-separation) - [International Child Custody & Hague Convention](https://goldwaterdroit.com/en/services/international-child-custody) - [Marriage & Cohabitation Agreements](https://goldwaterdroit.com/en/services/marriage-cohabitation-agreements) - [Parenting, Custody & Access](https://goldwaterdroit.com/en/services/parenting-custody-access) - [Youth Protection (DPJ)](https://goldwaterdroit.com/en/services/youth-protection) **Véronique Jacques** is an Associate at Goldwater Droit, where her practice covers family-law and youth-protection litigation. She appears before the Superior Court, the Quebec Court of Appeal, and the Youth Division of the Court of Quebec in divorce and separation, custody and parenting arrangements, partition of assets, international child custody, marriage and cohabitation agreements, and youth protection files. Her filiation and paternity practice has produced Superior Court orders establishing filiation despite repeated DNA-test refusals, a contempt sanction against a party who had persistently disregarded court orders, Court of Appeal judgments denying leave in DNA-testing disputes, and a continuance to address novel statutory questions arising from recent family-law amendments on parental rights in contexts of sexual assault and surrogacy. Her custody and divorce record includes contested multi-day trials addressing parenting time, child support, division of retirement plans, and a monetary condemnation against an opposing party for procedural failures. She also handles parental relocations in the context of custody disputes. On the youth-protection side, she has secured exclusive custody for a parent in a file involving physical abuse, psychological maltreatment, and excessive control by the other parent, along with court-ordered psychological evaluations, and has obtained extensions of protection orders that included the removal of elements of parental authority tied to passports, visas, and foreign travel. Before joining Goldwater Droit in 2023, Véronique was a partner at a social-justice oriented law firm, where she practised family law and youth protection for close to a decade. She earned her LL.B. from the Université de Sherbrooke in 2013, joined the Quebec Bar in 2014, and is a member of the Quebec Family Law Lawyers Association (AAADFQ). She works in French and English. If not a lawyer, she would have been a cardiothoracic surgeon. She brings the same instincts to a contested family file — meticulous preparation, steady hands in the moments that matter, and a tolerance for stakes that would unnerve most people. ##### LITIGATION & PRACTICE HIGHLIGHTS - [_Protection de la jeunesse — 251635 (2025)_](https://canlii.ca/t/kcvxt) - Acted for the respondent mother in an appeal before the Court of Quebec in Youth Division arising from youth protection proceedings involving two minor children; the appeal addressed issues of protection orders and parental authority in light of the DPJ's intervention and recommendations. - [_Droit de la famille — 24990 (2024)_](https://canlii.ca/t/k5cct) - Co-represented with Anne-France Goldwater the respondent wife before the Quebec Court of Appeal where the appellant husband challenged the trial judgment on grounds of professional privilege; the Court granted the motion to dismiss the appeal for lack of necessary leave to appeal. - [_Droit de la famille — 24124 (2024)_](https://canlii.ca/t/k2nb9) — Acted for the applicant father before the Superior Court in proceedings to establish paternity of a minor child; following the mother’s repeated refusal to comply with court orders requiring DNA testing, successfully represented the father in contempt of court proceedings; the Court imposed a punitive sanction against the mother for failing to comply with multiple judgments ordering genetic testing. - [_Droit de la famille — 222177 (2022)_](https://canlii.ca/t/jtjx8) - Acted for the applicant father before the Court of Quebec (Youth Division) in an application for child custody; the parents and all parties agreed to judgment rendered in chambers; the Court granted the father exclusive custody of the child with weekend access for the mother; the child was placed under DPJ supervision; no costs awarded. - [_Droit de la famille — 211897 (2021)_](https://canlii.ca/t/jjjgh) - Appeared as counsel for the respondent mother before the Court of Quebec (Youth Division) in a youth protection matter involving two minor children; the judgment addressed the custody and protection arrangements for the children in accordance with the Youth Protection Act; supervision by the DPJ was ordered. - [_Droit de la famille — 211813 (2021)_([https://canlii.ca/t/jjd69)](https://canlii.ca/t/jjd69)%EF%BF%BC) - Acted for the respondent wife before the Superior Court in a highly contested divorce proceeding involving parenting time, child support, spousal support, partition of the family patrimony, division of the matrimonial regime, and claims relating to the former family residence; the judgment addressed complex financial issues arising from a long marriage, including support obligations, property division, retirement assets, and compensation claims between the parties. - [_Droit de la famille — 201335 (2020)_](https://canlii.ca/t/j9pz6) - Co-counsel for the applicant mother before the Superior Court in proceedings concerning custody and access of two minor children where the mother had relocated; the parents had previously maintained shared custody but displacement made that impossible; judgment addressed best interests of the children. - [_S.C. c. G.P. (2019)_](https://canlii.ca/t/j12hm) - Served as counsel to the plaintiff wife in Superior Court, compelling her ex-husband to execute the transfer of the family home as required by the separation agreement; the Court ordered the defendant to sign the deed within 15 days (failing which the judgment would be registered in lieu of signature), awarded $6,303.18 in compensation, and granted provisional execution notwithstanding appeal. - [_Droit de la famille — 181124 (2018)_](https://canlii.ca/t/hs8xk) - Advised and represented the respondent wife before the Superior Court in provisional measures concerning spousal support; the wife suffered chronic health conditions and sought provisional alimony pending trial; the judgment addressed income determination and the Court's discretion under the Divorce Act and CCQ provisions on support.