The UNBA Family Law Section was headed by advocate Anna Garo
The order of the Head of UNBA, BCU on the appointment of a new head of this section was signed on May 2.
Anna Garo - Advocate, Mediator, Candidate of Law. From 2016 she worked in the legal departments of financial institutions. From 2014 to 2017, she headed the Family Law Committee of the All-Ukrainian Public Association "Association of Advocates of Ukraine", and from 2017 - the sectoral practice of family mediation of the National Association of Mediators of Ukraine. Member of the Committee on Medical and Pharmaceutical Law and Bioethics of UNSA, lecturer at the Higher School of Advocacy. In 2018, she joined the USAID New Juvenile Justice Experts project "New Justice". The law firm "GARO and Partners" is one of the leaders in the practice of family law by the results of the rating "Yurydychna gazeta".
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