David Hodson on International Family Law: Scam emails

A warning that the scam emails in the context of collaborative law are doing the rounds again. All international family lawyers should beware when they are contacted to enforce a foreign often American collaborative law agreement. These schemes were discovered in the UK Australia Canada and the US in 2009 re-occurring this past spring. They have just arrived again to me and my colleagues at The International Family Law Group so I felt it was timely to send out another warning.

The initial email is an enquiry from a prospective client seeking to pursue a substantial sum owing under a collaborative law agreement. The sum is invariably expressed in dollars and often approximately $750 000 to tempt a response. It says that there has already been a divorce and an ancillary out-of-court collaborative law settlement of which some small part has been paid. The person making the enquiry seeks assistance to collect the balance. The...

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