Family Law

After an embarrassing alcoholic incident on her past, Abigail Bianchi returns to law as part of her fathers firm and is thrown in at the deep end, in the midst of family drama and extended family dynamics.

Abigail and Daniel represent a couple with Down syndrome who must prove to authorities they are fit to raise their unborn child.

Abigail and Daniel defend a mother who may lose custody of her kids due to a gaming addiction. Abby continues to deny her own addiction and pays the price for that denial.

Abigail and Daniel represent an out and proud teenager who seeks emancipation from his bigoted parents. But representing their client becomes a challenge when he disappears.

Abigail and Daniel represent Ira, who wants his wife Helen moved from a care home that he claims is worsening her Alzheimer's. But because his daughter doesn't want Helen moved and holds power of attorney, Ira must challenge her in court. The more the lawyers witness, the more they wonder about Ira's true motivations. The case, and his own family, make Daniel start to question his commitment to Danielle. Meanwhile, Lucy tries to maintain a sliver of sanity when her in-laws stay over. And Harry forces Abigail to represent him in a (deeply embarrassing) personal injury case.

The lawyers are bewildered when a young couple begs them to reverse an adoption after learning about the baby's serious health issues. Abigail determines that the father, Ajay, is driving the decision, and convinces the mother, Jane to fight to keep the baby. Meanwhile, Daniel makes his case for Harry to promote him to partner, after breaking it off with Danielle. Lucy and Maggie's differences over starting a family come to a head while Abigail and Frank have to deal with their own parenting issues when Sofia is caught making out with a boy Abby calls "Charles Manson kid.

Still reeling from finding out about Frank's continued affair, Abby seeks justice for a debt-ridden widow whose husband might have faked his own death.

Daniel and Abby represent a trans teenager whose grandfather wants to block her access to hormone replacement therapy.

Abby and Daniel represent a woman whose divorce gets ugly when her ex-husband accuses her of being in a cult.

The lawyers represent a mail-order bride whose husband wants to annul the marriage and have her deported.

The firm represents Phaedra, a recent widow, in an estate dispute. Her late husband's daughter, wants her out of the will because they met while her mother was still alive and Phaedra was his escort.

Separated from her kids, Abby throws herself into helping Jessie, a woman who claims that her ex-husband is harassing her; Abby and Daniel suspect she is doing it to herself.

Still dealing with the aftermath of her own divorce, Abby represents Hannah, whose ex-husband left her and now wants to use their last remaining embryo to start a new family.

When a biased judge rules against Daniel's petition to have a scam marriage annulled, Abby uses Cecil as bait to trap the romance fraudster.

Abby represents an environmental activist whose devotion to the cause might cost him custody of his children. Meanwhile, a meeting with an old flame lands Harry in trouble.

Abby finds herself playing both lawyer and counsellor as she helps a paranoid and deeply closeted actor avoid being outed to the public when his bitter ex writes a play about him.

Abby scrambles to undo damage after she advises a pair of exhausted parents to surrender their autistic son to the Ministry for support and her clients are charged with neglect.

When a heart attack lands Judge Chip Crombie in hospital and both his wives show up, Abby revels in her nemesis' shame at being exposed as a bigamist.

A case of a mother disinheriting her uncaring biological children, leads Abigail to try and make amends with daughter. Daniel's new found Partner power goes to his head until he finds out the cost

Abigail rekindles her love life. Cecil is in high demand as each lawyers agenda pulls him in different directions. A difficult surrogate child custody case gets Abigail thinking.

A custody reversal case turns out to be something completely different. Harry's dating attempts are not going to plan and mysterious events in Daniel's office have him on edge.

A divorce case turns up financial irregularities. Daniel is stressing out about the baby issue, and an old lawyer friend of Harry seeks his help when his son wants to put him in assisted living.

Online media obsession and content creation leads Abigail into a case that is not as straight forward as it seems. A fight over an inheritance has a surprise ending, and Daniel's co-parenting scheme makes a few strange turns.

The impending merger is ruffling a few feathers in the firm, so Daniel thinks a company retreat is the answer, but during the retreat some unsettling truths are revealed.