With only months left until the new Family Law Act comes into effect we look at Gifts, Reapportionment and Unequal Division of Family Assets After Separation based on post separation efforts by one spouse and fairness. Call our top rated family property division lawyers now at any of our 4 offices across BC in vancouver, Surrey, […]
BC Family Law Discovery and Family Law Document Discovery Guide
BC Family Law Clients need to be aware that discoveries can be the most important part of both their and the opposing party’s case. It is critical that Vancouver family law lawyers are fully prepared for discoveries and that they have well instructed their clients for the discovery process. The highly rated family lawyers at MacLean Family Law […]
BC Patients Property Act Mental Infirmity Incapacity And Financial And Personal Affairs
BC Testamentary Capacity versus Ability to Manage Financial Affairs under Patients Property Act – It Is Not the Same Test! A BC committee of the person and estate of another party is a person appointed under the BC Patients Property Act by the BC Supreme Court to make personal, medical, legal, or financial decisions for […]
Vancouver BC Assisted Reproductive Technology and Child Parentage Lawyer
Today’s era of new and exciting Vancouver assisted reproductive technology is resulting in countless couples having the opportunity to have children, whom otherwise were unable to do so. However, those same assisted reproductive technologies that are bringing so much joy (and perhaps sleeplessness) to new parents are causing distress of a different sort for family […]
BC CHILD SUPPORT AND GUARDIANSHIP NEW BC FAMILY LAW ACT FAQ
Top Ten questions and answers when dealing with BC child support and BC child guardianship and bc child contact matters under the new FAMILY LAW AC “FLA” First-Goodbye to the terms custody and access as they cease to exist under our Family Law Act (although they will still exist under the Divorce Act.) The top rated […]
BC INTERIM CHILD CUSTODY ORDERS -IMPACT AT TRIAL ON CHILD CUSTODY
BC child custody orders are often made on incomplete and untested affidavit evidence and represent a reasonable interim solution until the matters in the dispute can be thoroughly reviewed with the parties giving their story in the witness box and being cross examined together with other witnesses and perhaps experts being subject to the same […]
VANCOUVER BANKRUPTCY AND BC FAMILY PROPERTY AND SUPPORT
The highly rated Property division and child and spousal support lawyers at the MacLean Family Law Group, based out of Vancouver, Surrey, Kelowna, and with offices in Fort St. John, want to talk to you a bit about bankruptcy. Spousal and child support: First of all, child support and spousal support obligations are on-going and […]
BC FAMILY LAW ACT CRIMINAL PEACE BONDS AND PROTECTION ORDERS
Criminal Code Peace Bonds and the Family Law Act Protection Orders Our highly rated family law and criminal law department of MacLean Family Law want you to be aware of big changes coming with the implementation of the Family Law Act on march 18, 2013. B.C.’ s Family Law Act, which comes into force March […]
BC SPOUSAL SUPPORT AND SELF SUFFICIENCY LAWYERS
Vancouver Spousal Support and a New Emphasis on the Obligation of the Spousal Support Dependant Spouse to Make Reasonable Efforts to become Self Sufficient As top rated Vancouver spousal support lawyers with four offices across BC and a toll free line at 1 877 602 9900we are intrigued by the new emphasis on self sufficiency […]
BC FAMILY COMPANY VALUATION AND INCOME TAX TRIAL LAWYER
Our high net worth Vancouver family lawyers routinely deal with family property and family company business valuations and how to take into account income tax consequences that are payable both on capital gains on assets owned by the company and on monies that may need to be withdrawn to pay compensation payment to the spouse […]
