Since her call to the Ontario Bar in 1985, Darlene Madott has practiced primarily in the area of Family Law. In her over 20 years of practice, she has participated in precedent setting cases. These include:

• A Trinidad husband obtains a stay of Ontario proceedings based on Trinidad being the more substantial jurisdiction (Nicholas);
• A woman obtains the right to sue grandparents for support, based on a contractual concept of the family (Cheng);
• An international child abduction case raises constitutional and conflict-of-laws issues where immigration legislation conflicts with the Children's Law Reform Act concept of returning abducted children to the home jurisdiction (Maharaj);
• A mobility case, where an access father successfully resists the move of his children with their mother to North Bay, (Tumino).
• In an Application for variation of child support and financial disclosure, where the parties had a separation agreement that provided for non-variable child support, special expenses, and waiver of future financial disclosure, the father was ordered to provide financial disclosure as mandated by the Child Support Guidelines and the information was ordered sealed for 12 months. (Quinn v. Keiper).

Darlene Madott now offers family mediation services and alternative dispute resolution services in addition to her regular family law practice. She is a member of the ADR Institute and Ontario Association of Family Mediators and Collaborative Law Toronto.

Madott has spoken at the Ontario Bar Association Family Law Conference on the subject of Special Expenses "from Computers and RESPs to Private School and Athletics - Section 7 Child Support Guidelines."

A published writer, as well as a barrister, Madott's clients receive the benefit of her written advocacy. Returning to the root of the word "advocate", Madott derives meaning and satisfaction in her work from the concept of "giving voice" to those who perhaps otherwise could not tell their own stories. She brings a uniquely creative and caring approach to the practice of family law.