[CPD Talk] Co-Parenting Reimagined: A Cross-Disciplinary Exploration of Best Practices

Join us for a cross-disciplinary talk focused on co-parenting and understanding parental conflict. This talk aims to equip legal professionals with essential knowledge to advise their clients on the practical aspects of co-parenting and parental co-ordination. The speakers will also share their insights on parental conflict from their work with high-conflict families. 

We welcome guest speakers Mr. Tang Chung Wah and Mr. Cheung Seut Fung, social workers from Circles of Love (聖雅各福群會童心圓共享親職支援中心), one of the five Specialised Co-parenting Support Centres in Hong Kong which specialise in providing divorce-related services such as parental co-coordination and parent-child contact. They will be joined by Isabel Tam and Ted Chan from Denis Chang’s Chambers. 

Topic highlights: 

• What contributes to the success or failure of co-parenting? Modes of co-parenting explained
• What does a co-parenting centre do? What’s its role in working with the family justice system (e.g., in facilitating supervised access)?
• Parental Co-ordination: growing trend and differences with mediation
• ⁠Re-thinking parental conflict and tips for matrimonial lawyers in advising clients

Details of the talk: 

• Language: Cantonese (with materials in English)
• Date: Monday, 22 September 2025
• ⁠Time: 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM, followed by a drinks reception
• ⁠Venue: Denis Chang’s Chambers, 9/F, One Lippo Centre, 89 Queensway, Admiralty
• CPD Accreditation: Application under progress (1.5 points)

 

Isabel Tam

Recognised as Leading Junior in Legal 500 (2025, Administrative and Public Law), Isabel’s practice focuses on family law, public law, and regulatory matters. She has extensive experience in general matrimonial finance and preservation of assets, as well as particular expertise in complex legal issues arising out of LGBTQ/modern families and the dissolution of families with cross-border elements. She has acted as sole counsel in the Court of Appeal, Court of First Instance, District Court, Magistrates’ Courts, and the Court of Final Appeal. 

Isabel has been involved in landmark family law cases concerning modern families and LGBTQ rights in Hong Kong. Notably, she represented the non-biological parent in AA v BB [2021] 2 HKLRD 1225, securing guardianship and joint custody for a same-sex couple. She was involved in NF v R [2023] 5 HKLRD 58, a case resulting in a novel type of relief, a declaration of “parentage at common law” for a same-sex parent. Her expertise in family law is augmented by her experience in other related areas including in particular tax (Koo Ming Kown & Anor v The Commissioner of Inland Revenue [2021] 3 HKLRD 642 on liability for additional tax), mental incapacitated persons, and trust claims.

She is a contributor to the current editions of Hong Kong Civil Procedure and Bullen & Leake & Jacob’s Hong Kong Precedents of Pleadings.  

View Isabel’s profile for more details.

 

Ted Chan

Ted has a broad civil and criminal practice. He has been regularly instructed to advise and/or handle probate, family and mental health cases. His experiences in handling cases with children and mental health dimensions also extend across different areas of law. Meanwhile, Ted continues to develop a wide range of practice areas including civil and commercial disputes. 

Outside the Courtroom, Ted regularly mediates civil and matrimonial cases as a CEDR accredited mediator. He also frequently collaborates with family therapy and social work professionals in giving seminars on working with divorced families. 

Ted is also a contributor to Atkins’ Court Forms and the Hong Kong Encyclopaedia of Forms & Precedents in Family Law.

More details can be found in Ted’s profile.

 

Mr Tang Chung-Wah, Social Worker
Senior Manager
Circle of Love (童心圓共享親職支援中心), St. James’ Settlement

Mr Tang Chung-Wah has been working in co-parenting services for over 10 years. He has served the court in Social Investigations for child custody cases. He has also managed child visitation and parenting coordination for over two hundred cases. Since the 2010s, he has been a member of an NGO that studies and advocates for the development of co-parenting services. 

 

Mr Cheung Suet-Fung, Social Worker
Circle of Love (童心圓共享親職支援中心), St. James’ Settlement

Mr Cheung Suet-Fung is a registered social worker who has served in family services and fieldwork supervision in Hong Kong. He is a Certified Marriage & Family Therapist with the Hong Kong Marriage and Family Therapy Association.

 

This article was first published on 1 September 2025.

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