Anne-France Goldwater

Anne-France Goldwater (born July 14, 1960 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian lawyer and television personality, best known as the arbitrator on L'Arbitre, a court show which debuted on the V television network in 2011.

The daughter of lawyers Sam Goldwater and Ruth Zendel, she studied law at McGill University before being admitted to the Bar of Quebec.

A family law lawyer from Montreal, Goldwater is a partner with Marie-Hélène Dubé in the firm of Goldwater, Dubé. The firm has been involved in some of Quebec's highest-profile family law cases, including Hendricks and Leboeuf v. Quebec, the Quebec Superior Court case which legalized same-sex marriage in Quebec;Lola vs. Eric, a case which resulted in the Quebec Court of Appeal declaring parts of Quebec's common-law marriage legislation to be unconstitutional in its denial of alimony and matrimonial regime rights, a decision ultimately overturned by the Supreme Court; and Bruker v. Markovitz, a Supreme Court of Canada case which found that a Jewish man could be held legally responsible for refusing to grant his former wife a get following their civil divorce.

She received the SOGIC Ally Award from the Canadian Bar Association's Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Conference in 2003 for her role in Hendricks and Leboeuf v. Quebec.

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