Overview

Anna Chen is an associate in Gowling WLG's Toronto office and a litigation lawyer in the firm's global Private Client Services Group. She focuses on estate litigation and estate law, helping clients address disputes involving wills, trusts, inheritances, estate administration and family property division. Anna represents executors, administrators, trustees, heirs and beneficiaries. Her work includes unjust enrichment claims, applications to remove executors or trustees, challenges concerning the validity of wills and trusts, guardianship applications, dependants' support proceedings and requests for judicial interpretation of testamentary documents. She also practises family law, including property division and spousal support disputes, and handles family claims involving estates. Anna assists clients through negotiation, mediation and litigation as circumstances require. She earned her JD from the University of Toronto in 2014 and was called in British Columbia in 2015 and Ontario in 2018. She is a member of several Canadian Bar Association sections.

Practice Areas

• Estate Litigation
• Estate Law
• Family Law
• Dispute Resolution and Litigation

Bar Information

Called to the bar: 2015 (BC)