As highly experienced divorce and family law practitioners, the lawyers at MacLean Law know that when one parent needs child relocation and must therefore either leave children with a custodial parent or take them to the new home as part of their own custodial duties, this can be one of the most emotionally difficult situations […]
Drawing on the depth and breadth of our expertise, we’ll help you distill the complicated so you can break through to strategic and positive family solutions.
Joyce Model BC Parenting Order
Many BC parents want to understand how two involved guardians should structure decision making regarding their children after separation. To help separated parents we provide the following precedent for what is called the Joyce Model BC Parenting Order. Contact our child custody and parenting time lawyers to meet with us across BC and in Calgary. […]
Calculating Child Support Income
Calculating Child Support Income is a key step in ensuring a fair child support result. In cases of business owners and self-employed persons, a thorough analysis of the paying parent’s true incomes is necessary. Simply using a self-employed person’s income tax return is the most common fatal error to properly calculating child support income. Assessing […]
Child Parenting Final Decision Making
Child Parenting final decision-making powers are critical in ensuring a child is raised properly. Constant power struggles or disputes over large and small decisions relating to your child after separation are unhealthy for both the warring parents and the child themselves. In today’s blog, MacLean Law’s Fraser MacLean explains the options on parental responsibilities and […]
Joint Finances After Separation
Joint finances after separation can be misused and in today’s blog, Tal Wolf explains the pitfalls you want to avoid. Vancouver post-separation financial planning and investment protection involves knowing what your marital joint accounts and lines of credit are and taking steps to freeze, close or withdraw monies to protect your share. Restraining orders can […]
Calgary Retroactive Spousal Support
Calgary Retroactive Spousal Support lawyers deal with cases where one or both spouses seek support for a period predating the date they apply for spousal support or to adjust old orders historically either up or down. Senior Calgary family lawyer Peter Graburn writes today’s blog to help you understand how Calgary retroactive spousal support works. […]
Changing Varying Spousal Support
Cases involving Changing Varying Spousal Support payments are brought frequently. Spouses may have changes in their incomes, their marital status, their health, and their net worth. But what is the test and who bears the onus to succeed in a BC Changing Varying Spousal Support application? The new BC Court of Appeal case in Pawluk […]
Vancouver Family Law Judicial Bias
Successful Vancouver Family Law Judicial Bias claims are rare. In the charged atmosphere of divorce and family proceedings, clients and sometimes even their family lawyers can feel they are being treated unfairly in their family law case. Vancouver family lawyers need to take a breath in these cases and help their clients understand the Canadian […]
Calgary Same Sex Divorce
Calgary Same Sex Divorce lawyers help you to navigate successfully divorce in Calgary and Alberta. Peter Graburn shows you the ropes of Calgary same-sex divorce in today’s blog. Same-sex couples in Alberta live in the same two legally-recognized family relationships as opposite-sex couples: either common-law (in Alberta legally referred to as Adult Interdependent Partnerships or […]
Vancouver Calgary Spousal Support Self Sufficiency
Vancouver Calgary Spousal Support Self Sufficiency cases raise the issue of sharing economic disadvantage arising from relationship breakdown against the need and possible duty for both spouses to move toward self-sufficiency after their relationship ends. The number 1 question we get asked is: How much spousal support is payable and for how long does spousal […]
