New BC Imputed Support Income Onus Decision provides the following legal principle: Once a party seeking the imputation of income presents the evidentiary basis suggesting a prima facie case for imputation of income (established often by the sheer drop in income earned before by a spouse), the onus shifts to the individual seeking to defend the income […]
BC Separated Spouses Cannot Vary Unfair Wills
BC Separated Spouses Cannot Vary Unfair Wills. We get asked a lot of questions on what happens to estates for separated and divorced spouses. The law is very clear that BC Separated Spouses Cannot Vary Unfair Wills. When parties separate there is an impact on both family law rights of common law spouses and the […]
BC Leave To Appeal Granted To Have Child Advocate Appointed
A new BC Leave to Appeal granted to have child advocate appointed case just came down this week. The recent BC Court of Appeal decision granted leave to appeal an adjournment to trial of a family law application to appoint a child advocate for a 12 year old child. BC Leave To Appeal Granted To […]
BC Non Removal of Child In Family Cases
BC Non Removal of Child In Family Cases including travel to India and China are attracting attention across North American family courts. We often use Jeremy Morley as an expert witness in our international child jurisdiction dispute cases. Our Vancouver and Surrey South Asian and Indian family law disputes lawyers team has a number of […]
International Hague Child Abduction Grave Risk Lawyers
MacLean Law is a leading International Hague Child Abduction Grave Risk lawyers firm. Lorne MacLean, KC is a fellow of the prestigious International Academy of Family Lawyers (“IAFL”) and he specializes in UHNW international family matters as well as international Hague Convention and non-Convention international child custody and parenting disputes including those involving wrongful removal […]
Loss of Privilege For AI Legal Research
These days everyone and their dog is using Chat GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and other Chat AI programs to look up legal cases and arguments. We have seen a number of legal AI hallucination fails with embarrassing and costly consequences to lawyers and self represented parties. MacLean Law dealt with Canada’s first legal hallucination case […]
Short Marriages Equal or Unequal Family Property Division?
Short Marriages Equal or Unequal Family Property Division? MacLean Law recently set a record $6.2 million family property recovery in a short disputed relationship of 2.5 years after a marathon 55 day trial. In our win, we successfully argued that the husband’s position: that unequal efforts and greater contribution by the husband who brought approximately […]
BC Excluded Property Division by Prior Agreement
BC Excluded Property Division by Prior Agreement is an issue we get many questions on. In today’s blog, MacLean Law senior associate Jonathan Wai explains what excluded property- is and isn’t- and how parties can make agreements on excluded property. BC Excluded Property Division by Prior Agreement Dividing family property after separation can be highly […]
How Do I Correct Interim Support Orders At Trial?
How Do I Correct Interim Support Orders At Trial? Our ultra high net worth divorce and family lawyers get asked this question a lot. In today’s blog, MacLean Law’s founder Lorne MacLean KC explains what the stakes are in these cases and highlights one of their record upward support corrections for their delighted client who […]
BC Division Of Excluded Property Lawyers
BC Division Of Excluded Property Lawyers handle the rare cases where million dollar excluded property is actually divided- sometimes equally! Wait what?! BC Division Of Excluded Property Lawyers There is no doubt most separating spouses are unaware of this which could mean they are leaving millions on the table. Get advice on BC Division Of […]
