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BC Common Law Relationships, Unmarried Couples and Child Support

A recent BC Supreme Court common law trust and property claim and step parent child support case Hall v. Becker explains nicely how a common law trust claim and property claim work. It also analyses the duty at BC law of a BC step parent to pay BC child support and considers the duty of both the natural father and step parent to pay child support in a case where the mother has re-partnered. A step parent is liable

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BC Common Law Relationships, unmarried couples and rights to BC child support

A recent BC Supreme Court common law trust and property claim and step parent child support case Hall v. Becker explains nicely how a common law trust claim and property claim work. It also analyses the duty at BC law of a BC step parent to pay BC child support and considers the duty of both the natural father and step parent to pay child support in a case where the mother has re-partnered. A step parent is liable

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BC Family Law High Net Worth Spousal Support Income Update

Lorne MacLean, high net worth BC divorce lawyer and his BC MacLean Family Law Group handle many high BC spousal support income and high BC family asset net worth cases and recently obtainbe a combined child and spousal support award of almost $30,000 per month. Many high net worth BC family asset cases not surprisingly involve high BC spousal support income as well. Until recently it had been thought that a BC high net worth family asset award to a spouse of perhaps 3 to 4 million dollars would mean the BC spouse with a lower income would not be entitled to spousal support as they would be receiving a generous award of family assets which could be used to generate income and as well the capital could be slowly used up as well over the lifetime of the spouse. The recent BCCA case of Chutter has turned this idea upside down.

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BC Common Law Relationships, BC Cohabitation Spousal Support and BC Unmarried Couples Property Division

More BC spouses live in BC common law relationships or marriage like relationships and when they separate the law that applies for spousal support and property division can be different than for married persons. Recent BC family law articles in the Globe and other papers indicate that more people are choosing to live together without […]

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What Makes the Best* BC Family Lawyer or Top Vancouver BC Family Law Firm?

As the managing partner at MacLean Family Law I recently spoke to a number of Canada‚’s largest law firm managing partners at the CBA Law Firm Leadership Conference in Toronto, where I told the audience we needed to regain the public’s trust as lawyers and to show more compassion for our clients and that our goal as lawyers on behalf of our clients was to make everyone involved in our clients’ family law matter a part of the crew and not part of the cargo.

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BC Child Custody – What Happens When a Parent With Child Custody Wants to Move Away?

An interesting BC family law and divorce article on BC Child Custody and BC child access and BC parental mobility was published in the Vancouver Sun today by Darah Hansen. The article points out that there is no automatic entitlement to move away with child after divorce -but rather the court will look at what […]

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Retroactive British Columbia Child Support Guidelines 2009 Update – Credit for Voluntary Payments in BC

A recent BC family law, BC Court of Appeal case addressed the issue of giving credit to a millionaire payor spouse who failed to disclose his true income as against a retroactive award of BC child support based on the BC paying spouses blameworthy conduct in failing to disclose his true income over several years.

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Free British Columbia Divorce and Travel Consent Form To be used by Custody and Access Parents to leave BC

Parents who are divorced or separated in BC and who have child custody or child access need a signed travel consent form signed by the other parent or a BC court order saying they have sole custody or the right to leave the country to avoid problems when leaving with their children or returning to British Columbia. Make sure you get the form signed well in advance of the trip to avoid last minute stress for you and the children.

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BC FAMILY LAW ANNOUNCES FREE BC DIVORCE AND SEPARATION QUESTION AND ANSWER FORUM ON MACLEAN FAMILY LAW GROUP’S FACEBOOK PAGE

Please feel free to post your BC divorce and British Columbia separation questions on BC Child custody, BC access, BC Spousal support, and BC family assets on our MacLean Family Law Group facebook page

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How is BC child support calculated and who is liable?

The amount of British Columbia child support and duration of BC child support for parents of children living in BC is calculated by reference to the Divorce Act , the BC Family Relations Act, the Federal Child Support Guidelines all of which apply to child support determination in British Columbia.
In all cases, the amount of BC child support is calculated on the basis of Canadian Child Support Guidelines, which stipulate the support payable. The amount of support is based on the income of the non-custodial parent, generally without regard to the income of the custodial parent EXCEPT FOR SECTION 7 special and extraordinary expenses BUT both BC parents incomes and possibly that of their new partners can be used when the arties share near equal contol of the BC children sujectto achild support order.

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