Civil & Commercial Disputes·Family Law & Wealth Succession
Control across multiple stages — legal analysis, the evidence, litigation strategy, the plan for enforcement — addressing a client’s actual legal needs from more than one direction.
Taishan People’s Court Court-appointed mediator · Jiangmen Lawyers Association Member, Capital Markets Committee (8th)
Since joining the firm in 2011 I have handled contract, equity and tort disputes — cases about evidence and numbers — alongside divorce, custody and inheritance matters, which are cases about people. The two feed each other. The evidentiary discipline and asset-tracing habits that commercial litigation teaches are exactly what family cases most often lack: dividing property and settling custody still comes down to who has the facts straight.
So I do not sell reassurance, and I do not inflate the odds. At the first meeting I set out the realistic range of outcomes, the time it will take and the worst case — and then you decide whether to negotiate, mediate or litigate.
Because of how these questions were left unsettled historically, the disputes are acute. As the law is completed and this revision takes effect, I believe women’s property rights will be better protected — protected in practice, with a rule to rely on.Cai Liya, “Nine Key Changes in the Revised Law on the Protection of Women’s Rights”, March 2023
Few cases sit in just one of them: a divorce can involve a house, a shareholding and a company’s books at once.
Since admission, a substantial caseload of civil and commercial disputes — contract, corporate and shareholder, and tort matters. Control across multiple stages: legal analysis, marshalling the evidence, litigation strategy and the plan for enforcement, addressing a client’s actual legal needs from more than one direction.
A sustained focus on divorce, the division of marital property, child custody and support, inheritance, and the succession of family wealth. Drawing on a deep understanding of both the law and the emotions of family life, providing clients with service that is at once legally rigorous and humane. Founding head of the firm’s family practice since 2023.
Standing outside counsel to a number of companies, providing contract review, compliance management and risk control as day-to-day legal work in support of steady corporate growth.
What most people fear before a first appointment is not losing — it is not knowing what happens next.
One unhurried one-to-one meeting, starting from the beginning. Bring whatever you already have — marriage certificate, property and vehicle documents, bank records, messages, any agreement or judgment. If you have none of it, we still talk first.
Map the assets and the gaps in the evidence, estimate the realistic range of outcomes, the time and the cost, and lay the three routes — negotiate, mediate, litigate — side by side. You choose.
What can be settled should not go to trial. As a mediator appointed by the Taishan People’s Court I know what a judge looks for in mediation — and which clauses tend to fail later at the enforcement stage.
If it cannot be settled, we file without hesitation — filing, evidence, hearing, appeal and post-judgment enforcement, all handled personally. The file is not passed on.
Meetings are one-to-one. Everything you say — including the fact that you came at all — stays here.
The same lawyer from the first meeting to the last enforcement filing. In family matters, having to tell the story again is itself a cost.
No promises about outcomes, no avoiding bad news. What can and cannot be achieved is spelled out before any fee is agreed.
Founded in 1981, Guangdong Wuyi was the first law firm established in Jiangmen after the restoration of the legal profession in China. I have been here ever since.
Sworn in as a newly admitted lawyer at the twelfth Jiangmen Lawyers’ Day ceremony, and began practising in my own name.
Mock trials, law classes in primary schools, community lectures on the Civil Code, and briefings on the nine key changes in the revised Law on the Protection of Women’s Rights and Interests. A member of the Taishan constitutional-education speakers’ group, advising village and neighbourhood committees.
When the firm restructured into specialist practice groups under its three-year quality programme, I was appointed to lead the first Family Law & Wealth Succession group — building the team and opening its trust and succession work with financial institutions.
Elected a partner of Guangdong Wuyi Law Firm in March 2024, alongside four colleagues.
Received the firm’s fifteen-year service award and its annual revenue-breakthrough award at the 2025 awards ceremony, held alongside the firm’s 45th-anniversary events; appointed to the firm’s new funds management committee and served as a judge of its 2025 case competition.
Each of these comes with actual work: mediating before the hearing, preparing the lectures, leading the practice group.
Nominated by the Jiangmen Lawyers Association and listed on the Taishan People’s Court roster of court-appointed mediators (published December 2021), registered for property-management disputes.
Coordinating the committee’s work and its practice seminars on equity, corporate governance and capital-markets matters.
Founding head since the firm created its practice groups in 2023 — team building, internal training and external practice partnerships.
Contributing to legal-education work and professional activities on the protection of women’s rights.
Advising village and neighbourhood committees across Taishan and running legal-education sessions for public institutions.
Mostly public legal education — a rule is only useful once someone understands it.
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The questions I get asked most at the lectures, written down.
Articles are in preparation and will appear here.
One of the significant breakthroughs, the article argues, is that the revised law addresses rural women’s property rights directly — the classic cases being married-out daughters excluded from collective dividends, and women left off rural property registers. It works through the nine changes using worked examples: dividend entitlement, the treatment of property bought during a marriage, and how to gather evidence and pursue a claim in sexual-harassment cases.
The code is good for consumers and for merchants alike … but as an industry code it carries no binding force and no legal compulsion.
Finding something foreign in your food has always been a hard claim to bring: the consumer has to prove clearly where it came from.
(as reported) A shop must display the posted price for the service; a consumer has a prior right to know the price and the quality of what they are buying.
Whatever you already have: identity and marital documents, property and vehicle records, company shareholdings and bank statements, messages or recordings, and any agreement already signed or judgment already issued. An incomplete file is not a problem — the first meeting is about direction, not filing.
An uncontested divorce registered with the civil affairs bureau involves a statutory thirty-day cooling-off period before the certificate can be issued. A contested divorce under ordinary first-instance procedure is generally subject to a six-month limit, longer where assets must be traced or valued or where jurisdiction is contested; and where a first petition is refused, a further waiting period may apply before re-filing. The real timetable depends on the asset structure and on how far the other side co-operates.
As a rule, income from work, business and investments acquired during the marriage is community property, while pre-marital assets and compensation for personal injury are separate. In practice the difficulty is rarely the rule but the proof: who funded a property and whose name was added, when shares were acquired and how much of the appreciation is marital, where large sums went during the marriage. The earlier the tracing starts, the more room there is.
The court decides in the best interests of the child, weighing the child’s age and attachment, each parent’s capacity and available time, and the stability of housing and schooling; a child aged eight or older must also have their genuine wishes respected. Support is generally set by reference to the child’s actual needs, each parent’s means and local living costs.
You can report to the police and ask for a written warning, apply to the court for a personal safety protection order, and seek help from the women’s federation or your residents’ or villagers’ committee. Beyond physical harm, sustained verbal abuse, humiliation and financial control may also be found to constitute domestic violence. What matters most is fixing the evidence early: police receipts, medical records, photographs of injuries, messages and witnesses.
Yes. A lawyer is bound to keep confidential the privacy and commercial secrets learned in the course of practice. Meetings are one-to-one; neither the fact of the meeting nor its content is disclosed.
By reference to the case type, the amount in dispute and the work involved, negotiated within the Guangdong provincial fee guidelines and set out in the engagement letter. Note that contingency fees are not permitted in matters involving personal relationships, including marriage and inheritance. The estimated cost is explained at the first meeting, before any engagement.
The above is general legal information, not advice on any specific matter. Every outcome turns on its own facts and evidence — please treat a formal consultation as the operative answer.