MacLean Family Law Wins Top Choice “Vancouver’s Best* Family Law Firm” Award Again MacLean Family Law has been consistently ranked as one of Western Canada’s and Vancouver’s best* family law firm. In fact we have won “Vancouver’s Best* Family Law Firm” 2 out of the last 3 years as tabulated and ranked by Prestigious Top […]
Spousal Support Time Limits
BC Spousal Support Time Limits Are Tricky On spousal support time limits, our lawyer recently argued a precedent setting case in the BC court of appeal. MacLean Law won on behalf of her client at trial on the spousal support time limits argument but the BC Court of Appeal sent it back for a determination […]
Family Property Division Lawyer
MacLean Law Family Property Division Lawyer has precedent setting win endorsed and applied by BC Court Of Appeal MacLean Law’s family property division lawyers precedent setting win for our client in the Meservy v Field case, was just approved of and applied by BC’s highest court in a recent BC Court of Appeal decision. Since […]
Over The Age of Majority Child Support
MacLean Family Law’s top rated, over the age of majority child support lawyers, regularly deal with cases involving child support for children over the age of 19 years where their separated parents cannot agree if support should be continued. We are BC’s largest family law firm and one of BC’s most highly rated family law […]
BC Spousal Support Variation
The BC spousal support variation team at MacLean Law appreciates the very concise summary presented by Mr. Justice Verhoeven in Lamont v. Johnson, 2016 BCSC 366 concerning the test that must be met for a successful BC spousal support variation application. Our lawyers both apply for and oppose BC spousal support variation applications from all of our 4 offices […]
Beneficial Interest In a Discretionary Trust
Lorne N. MacLean, QC, heads our BC beneficial interest in a discretionary trust and family trust property division legal department across BC. MacLean and his team of top rated* family property division lawyers (selected once again as Vancouver’s Best Family Law firm), have been closely watching the new Family Law Act family trust property division […]
Supervised Child Access
Supervised Child Access and Contact Lorne MacLean, QC has successfully guided his clients in supervised child access and contact cases for over 34 years. He knows that supervised child access is artificial and courts must be careful not to weaken or destroy a parent child bond through this intrusive form of child access regime. Protecting […]
Child Access Child Contact Lawyers
Our child access child contact lawyers handle hundreds of child parenting time, child parenting responsibilities and child access and child contact cases. Our child access child contact lawyers act for primary residential parents, shared parenting spouses and parents seeking child access and child contact. BC guardians get parenting time but BC non-guardian parents get child […]
Family Law Expert Evidence
New BC Appeal Case Enforces Gatekeeper Role in Family Law Expert Evidence In a key 2016 case involving disputed family law expert evidence, the BC Court of Appeal has sent a stern message to family law lawyers and their clients that they will enforce proper rules for accepting family law expert evidence in all family […]
Review of Spousal Support
Lorne MacLean, QC set the law on what a review of spousal support is in Canada in the leading case of Leskun v. Leskun of our Supreme Court of Canada. There is a significant difference in the onus an applicant faces when a review of spousal support is sought as compared to a variation of spousal […]
