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William R. (Bill) Storey was born and raised in Vancouver, British
Columbia, and graduated with honours in the Arts programme at the
University of British Columbia in 1969. Bill was called to the Bar in
the Province of British Columbia in 1980, and has practiced family law
in Vancouver since 1982. He has had his own family law practice in
Vancouver since 1984. Over the years Bill has been counsel in many
difficult child custody cases and in recent years he has developed a
particular expertise in the handling of parental child abduction
cases, cases in which children have been abducted by one of their
parents and taken to other areas of the country or other countries.
He has developed a wide ranging knowledge of the law regarding
international parental child abduction and has had a great deal of
success in assisting parents whose children have been abducted by the
other parent in the recovery of their children. He has acted for many
Canadian parents who have been attempting to locate and recover their
abducted children from other countries and has assisted such parents
in the successful location and recovery of their children from many
different countries, including the United States, Australia, the
United Kingdom and Morocco. He has also assisted parents from other
countries, including Germany, France, Hungary, the United States,
Australia and the United Kingdom, whose children have been abducted to
Canada by the other parent in the successful location and recovery of
their children and return of those children to their homelands.
Bill is a member and supporter of a number of international
organizations who promote the prompt and effective location and
recovery of internationally abducted children and the return of such
children to their homelands, including reunite, the Association of
Family and Conciliation Courts and the Missing Children Society of
Canada. He has given presentations and has written a number of
articles and contributed to a number of publications regarding
enforcement of custody orders and the law and practice in the field of
location and recovery of internationally abducted children.
Bill has also been appointed as a Child Advocate in a number of
difficult child custody cases. In that capacity he has acted as
counsel for children who have been caught up in disputes between their
parents regarding custody and access and has attempted to ensure that
those disputes are resolved in ways which promote the best interests
of the children.
Bill also promotes and supports the resolution of family law disputes
by agreement. He has taken mediation training and collaborative law
training. He is a member of the British Columbia Collaborative
Divorce group and in recent years he has been counsel for one of the
parties in a number of collaborative law cases.
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