Yap Teong Liang
Senior International Mediator
Teong Liang has represented high net worth clients and handles cases involving foreign marriages, cross-border international complex child abduction and relocation cases, as well as jurisdictional and forum issues, child custody and access cases, maintenance for the child and wife, division of matrimonial assets and family violence.
He is appointed by the Chief Justice as a member of the Family Justice Rules Committee constituted pursuant to Section 46(1) of the Family Justice Act and appointed onto the panel of Child Representatives by the Family Justice Courts since October 2014.
Teong Liang has presented papers at both local and overseas family law conferences over the years and recently co-authored the Chapter on Dispute Resolution Options in the book “The Art of Family Lawyering” (2019 Special Edition) and authored the chapter on Ancillary Relief: Orders That Can be Made in “The Law and Practice of Family Law in Singapore”.
Key Practice Areas:
Family Matters
Working Languages:
English
“My approach to mediation is to be flexible and adaptable. No one size fits all.
The dynamics of the parties and their counsel may be different. Some parties may prefer a more directive approach and look for options development from the mediator. I try to find a solution for the parties where they each feel coming out of a settlement after mediation that they achieved something that is acceptable/satisfactory/contented with and this may be different for each party.“
- Assocate Mediator, Singapore Mediation Centre (SMC);
- Accredited Mediator with the Family Justice Courts Accredited Mediator Regent’s University, London (Mediation and Psychology);
- Panel on the Cross-Border Family Mediators of MiKK International Mediation Centre for Family Conflict and Child Abduction;
- Panel on the Law Society of Singapore Family Law Mediation Scheme.
- His law firm T L Yap Law Chambers LLC has been ranked as one of Singapore’s Best Law Firms in Family Law by the Straits Times from 2021 to 2024
- Mediated at the Family Justice Courts and has frequently been jointly appointed as a private mediator (sole or co-mediator) for family cases involving domestic and international matters.
- Co-mediated with a mediator from the UK on a family law matter
- Teong Liang also practices as a Collaborative Family Practitioner, Parenting Coordinator
- He is on the panel of Cross-Border Family Mediators of Mediation bei Internationalen Kindschaftskonflikten (MiKK), Berlin, Germany
- He is listed as a Preeminent and Leading Family & Divorce Lawyer in the Doyle’s Guide.
- Bachelor of Laws (LL.B), Honours, University of Buckingham, UK
- Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
- Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers