This information regarding parenting rights, responsibilities, and arrangements is general in nature and not intended to be a substitute for legal advice. If you’re concerned about guardianship, designing parenting arrangements, or access to your child in relation to a separation or divorce, please contact MacLean Law at 1 877 602 9900. Lorne MacLean has struggled […]
Surrey Child Abduction Return Lawyers
Surrey Child Abduction Return Lawyers at MacLean Law deal with cases involving the denial of parenting time and the wrongful removal of a child from the child’s home base. These wrongful child removals may be within British Columbia or across Canada or even around the world. Robert McQueen, head of our Surrey Child Abduction Return […]
Vancouver BC Hague Abduction Lawyers
Vancouver BC Hague Abduction Lawyers deal with cases involving disputes children who may have been wrongfully removed from another country. The Hague Convention on Child Abduction does not apply to cases where a child is taken to a new province or territory in Canada as these disputes are governed by sections 61, 64 and 72-79 […]
IVF Frozen Embryo Dispute
IVF Frozen Embryo Dispute cases are becoming more common. Specific Canadian statutory sections and regulations require the consent of both “parents” without a current clause allowing the court to decide tough cases. Our skilled IVF Frozen Embryo Dispute lawyers predict a Charter of Rights challenge will be filed in the near future to enable a […]
Child Relocation, Mobility and Move-Away Laws
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Vancouver Calgary Child Custody Variation
Vancouver Calgary Child Custody Variation lawyers handle cases when parents want to change an original order on child custody and parenting time arrangements. The recent decision of S.M.M. v. J.P.H.points out the test that must be met before the original child custody or original child parenting time or responsibilities Order is varied. The test for […]
Calgary Top 5 Parenting Time Principles
CALGARY TOP 5 PARENTING TIME PRINCIPLES (Part 2) By Peter Graburn Managing Associate MacLean Family Law Calgary. In a previous post (see Top 5 Parenting Principles Part 1) I discussed that if separated parents cannot agree on the major decisions regarding their children (ie. regarding their education, religion, health-care and general well-being), the Courts may […]
Top 5 Parenting Time Principles
TOP 5 PARENTING TIME PRINCIPLES (Part 1 of 2) Call 1 877 602 9900 Peter Graburn senior associate at our Calgary office knows parenting is hard. Even when parents are living together, it is sometimes difficult to agree on even the day-to-day decisions involved in raising children, let alone the major decisions regarding their: ● education; […]
