Executive
Profile
President-ElectMr Yap Teong LiangDirector | T L Yap Law Chambers LLC (SINGAPORE) Yap Teong Liang was admitted as an Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore in June 1992 and runs his boutique law firm specialising in Family Law since 10 June 1992. Teong Liang has been engaged as leading counsel handling complex cross-border international child abduction and relocation cases, jurisdictional and forum issues as well as children’s and financial disputes. He has provided expert opinion on Singapore divorce laws as a Single Joint Expert and is listed as a Leading Family & Divorce Lawyer in the Doyle’s Guide 2025 and Litigation Star for Family and Matrimonial Disputes in Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific 2025. From 2021 to 2025, the firm was ranked one of Singapore’s Best Law Firms in Family Law in the Straits Times/Statista survey. |
 |
Teong Liang also practices as a Collaborative Family Practitioner, Parenting Coordinator, Principal Mediator and Senior International Mediator and appointed onto the panel of Child Representatives by the Family Justice Courts since October 2014.
He is currently the Chairperson of the Family Law and Family Rights Committee and President-Elect of LAWASIA and a Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers.
Teong Liang has moderated and presented papers at both local and overseas family law conferences and authored the chapters on Maintenance of Wife and Children and Ancillary Relief: Orders That Can be Made and co-authored the chapters on Dispute Resolution Options and Relocation in various leading publications.