Fraser MacLean Named Canadian Lawyer’s 2025 Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers. Fraser MacLean is a Vancouver family lawyer at MacLean Family Law and one of the youngest lawyers to win Canadian Lawyer Magazine’s Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers award. A Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, he has led precedent-setting cases involving $70–90M in […]
Conspiracy to Avoid Support and Property Division
Are you worried your spouse might be conspiring with others to reduce your support or hide family assets from you? It’s not an uncommon concern, and a recent case from the British Columbia Supreme Court of Kennedy v Kennedy, 2025 BCSC 1165 sheds some light on how the courts view claims of Conspiracy to […]
Best BC Shared Child Parenting Lawyers Free Checklist
Best BC Shared Child Parenting Lawyers Free Checklist comes from lawyers who successfully won shared parenting back in the 1980’s when father’s struggled to maintain maximum contact with their children after separation. We won Young v. Young in the Supreme Court of Canada which is Canad’s most famous ” maximum contact ” child parenting time […]
Do Affairs Mean You Pay More On An UHNW Divorce?
Do Affairs Mean You Pay More on an UHNW Divorce? The answer is, usually no, in BC and Canada, for both spousal support and property division but there are exceptions to ensure family money isn’t wasted on the affair that reduces the property to be divided. Do Affairs Mean You Pay More On An UHNW […]
Best Men’s UHNW Spousal and Child Support Lawyers
Best Men’s UHNW Spousal and Child Support Lawyers help men obtain fair results on on paying or receiving spousal and child support in ultra wealthy cases. Even high earning professional men earning hundreds of thousand of dollars per year may be entitled to significant and long term indefinite spousal support. So, who set the highest […]
Indefinite Spousal Support In Short Marriages
Indefinite Spousal Support In Short Marriages is something many family law clients and some family lawyers are not clear on. A recent BC Court of Appeal case dealt with a 4 year marriage with young children and upheld a trial division that ordered indefinite spousal support. Our Indefinite Spousal Support In Short Marriages lawyers warn […]
Highest Canadian Lump Sum Spousal Support Awards
The highest Canadian Lump Sum Spousal Support Awards happen once in a lifetime. MacLean Law lawyers set multiple records more than once for their delighted ultra high net worth family law clients. MacLean Law lawyers obtained roughly 6 million in lump sum support from a payor nearing 70 with a review to go higher and […]
Provincial Child Abduction Jurisdictional Disputes Lawyers
MacLean Law’s Provincial Child Abduction Jurisdictional Disputes Lawyers want the public to be alerted to a new blockbuster Supreme Court of Canada case on how past Hague decisions, and their new decision on analogous provincial court legislation, may guide Provincial Child Abduction Jurisdictional Disputes Lawyers in their approach in these disputes. Our top rated habitual […]
Spousal Support en BC: No es un Derecho Automático
Spousal Support en BC: No es un Derecho Automático Los mejores abogados de family de habla hispana son frecuentemente consultados para determinar cuánto apoyo conyugal (spousal support) se debe pagar o recibir. Otra pregunta común que nuestros abogados reciben es: ¿por cuánto tiempo se debe pagar el apoyo conyugal? Ana Banus una de nuestras mejores […]
Parenting Coordinators Exceeding Authority Lawyers
What you can do if a Parenting Coordinator Exceeds their Authority? Sophie Bartholomew, one of our top Parenting Coordinators Exceeding Authority Lawyers weighs in on this topic. You are ordered or agreed to appoint a Parenting Coordinator hoping to reduce conflict, not increase it. Ideally, this professional would help smooth out parenting disagreements without constant […]
