Overview
His family law work includes divorce, parenting disputes (custody and access issues), property division and equalization, marriage, and cohabitation agreements. Dealing with both married and common law couples, Russ has been doing so for more than 30 years and has acted for thousands of clients over that time. He is head of the family law department in the firm and remains a primary source of information on family law for the other lawyers in the office.
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The Wills and Estate practice involves both drafting of documents (Wills and Powers of Attorney) and dealing with estate litigation on behalf of the deceased or beneficiaries.
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As counsel to the firm, Russ puts his years of experience to work helping all the other lawyers in the firm and providing legal and procedural advice to the partners in operational and management issues. He also teaches other lawyers in their own practices and mentors the articling students in their own daily work as they learn the ropes in preparation for their own calls to the Ontario bar.
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Russ was called to the bar in 1990 in Ontario. He was also called to the bar in 2021 in Nunavut. Not only does he have a multitude of experience in the legal profession but has a significant amount of life experience as well. His personal viewpoint is that life is short, so we really have to make the most of it. He’s always trying to illicit a smile and a laugh. It works . . . most of the time.
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Russ can be reached at (613) 230-5787 ext. 308 or rmolot@lmslawyers.com.
Practice Areas
- Family Law
- Personal Injury
- Wills & Power of Attorney
Education & Qualifications
- Year of Call: 1990 (Ontario) 2021 (Nunavut)
- LL.B, University of Windsor Law School
- Hon. B.A., Criminology, Psychology and Law, Carleton University
Featured Work
Civil Litigation/Personal Injury
- Represented a client at trial and obtained a shared parenting order. This client previously had parenting time every second weekend.
- Represented a client at a viva voce hearing and obtained a spousal support order granting the high end of the range of the Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines for an indefinite duration.
- Represented a client at a settlement conference and successfully negotiated an equitable agreement respecting the division of matrimonial property and retroactive spousal support.
Family Law
- Successfully represented a client in a 7 day trial who was being sued for spousal support in a common law relationship. (Boothe v. Gore (1996) 20 O.T.C. 207 (Ont. Gen. Div.)
- Successfully represented client in property and support dispute, including freezing an attempted sale of property before it was sold to 3rd parties (Vo v. Tran, 2021 ONSC 2017)
Estate Litigation
- Acted on behalf of person who was incapable of managing their own affairs and declared as such by an assessor. (Shaw v. Barber, 2017 ONSC 2155)
