Our Vancouver child support guideline lawyers at MacLean Family Law Group know that child care costs can be a difficult task for a single parent when trying to balance work and family life. The financial strain on most single parent families makes staying at home almost never an option as both parents need to provide […]
Vancouver Interim Emergency Family Law Applications and Orders for Custody, Support and Property
Interim Vancouver Family Orders and Applications can include temporary BC family law decisions relating to the payment of spousal support, child support, control and access to property, control of bank accounts, and often most importantly, access and custody of children. Vancouver Supreme Court Makes Emergency Interim Family Law Order for Child Custody & Access when […]
Vancouver BC Variation Of Spousal Support Material Change of Circumstances
Variation of Vancouver spousal and child support only happens if there is a material change of circumstances since the making of the original support order. A material change is one that: if known at the time of the original order would have caused a different amount or duration of support to be ordered. The test […]
BC ISOA Support Lawyers Foreign and Out of Province Interjurisdictional Support Orders Act
Our Vancouver out of province support orders lawyers are frequently asked about how BC ISOA-Interjurisdictional Support Orders Act cases work: “How can you change or enforce a spousal or child support Order when parents or spouses live in different provinces in Canada or in different countries?” In the province of British Columbia, the BC Interjurisdictional […]
Surrey Child Support Guidelines Income Calculation For Self Employed BC Business Owners
Our top Surrey child support lawyers know that the federal child support guidelines calculation is largely based on the income of the paying parent. If you don’t calculate the income properly you won’t obtain the correct Surrey child support amount. But what happens when the personal living expenses of a parent are paid for, either […]
Vancouver Child Support Lawyers Imputed Guideline Income and Unemployed Stay At Home Parents
What happens when a parent decides to be a “stay-at-home-parent” for the infant child of a new marriage and, due to this “unemployment,” is unable to pay child support for the children of the former marriage? Our top rated* Vancouver child support lawyers are pleased to explain this issue and issues involving underemployed spouses to […]
Vancouver Step-parent Child Support and the New BC Family Law Act
BC Step-parent Child Support lawyer, Lorne MacLean, Q.C., wants both married and common-law spouses to know that the new Family Law Act commencing March 18, 2013 brings some small but important changes to BC child support. The new BC Family Law Act Act will precisely define a step-parent’s accountability to pay child support while considering […]
SURREY BC RETROACTIVE CHILD AND SPOUSAL SUPPORT LAWYERS
Surrey and Vancouver family law clients involved in BC spousal and child support cases often mistakenly believe that orders and agreements will prevent claims of retroactive child and spousal support. Promptly dealing with the correction of support is important for both paying and receiving parents. We have 4 family law offices in BC and our top […]
Duty Of Full Disclosure of BC Support Income and Family Property
Our highly rated BC and Calgary family lawyers cannot emphasize enough the duty of full disclosure in BC child and spousal support and family property division cases. All to often parties refuse to provide proof of their real income including receipt of unreported cash payments, personal benefits from companies, monies kept in a company so […]
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 […]
