Restraining Financial Family Violence is a critical component of protecting vulnerable separated spouses and children from emotional and financial harm. Personal protection orders protect family members from emotional violence which can include financial coercion. Property restraining orders to ensure money and assets are not hidden or wasted protect against the disposition of real estate, chattels, […]
Avoiding Child Support Income Calculation Mistakes
Avoiding Child Support Income Calculation Mistakes is critical particularly when the paying or receiving spouse is a high-income earner who owns a professional practice, a partnership interest, or a corporation. Founder, Lorne MacLean, QC recently named Top 25 Canadian Lawyer warns separated spouses to ensure they look at the right financial documents so they don’t […]
Cancelling BC Support Arrears
Cancelling BC Support Arrears Means Proving Not To Do So Would Be Grossly Unfair says Lorne MacLean, QC founder of MacLean Law. The takeaway from this is, that if you have lost your job, or taken a pay cut, or had your business fail, you must not procrastinate because the test to vary support up […]
Winning Retroactive Child Support Strategies
Winning Retroactive Child Support Strategies come from award-winning family lawyers. Children deserve a post-separation lifestyle that takes into account increases and decreases in the income of their parents. The phrase when you “snooze you lose” applies to retroactive child and spousal support claims. Do not dither or procrastinate in hiring a top family lawyer. A […]
Best Richmond Family Lawyers
MacLean Law has been named one of the Best Richmond Family Lawyers firms by threebestrated again this year. The firm is proud to have amongst the best Richmond family lawyers as proven by our winning record as Best Vancouver family law firm for the past 5 years in a row as voted by Top Choice […]
Gifts as Income for Child Support
Gifts as Income for Child Support is a tricky family law topic. Our Gifts as Income for Child Support lawyers in BC and Alberta handle these challenging family law cases on behalf of spouses seeking child support as well as for those against whom a child support award is sought. Senior family lawyer, Peter Graburn […]
Best Prince George Family Lawyers Tips
Best Prince George Family Lawyers Tips help our Prince George family law clients successfully resolve their family law cases. MacLean Law is an award-winning family law firm with 6 offices across BC and Alberta. Our commitment to Northern BC and Alberta is well known. We hope today’s Best Prince George Family Lawyers Tips blog by […]
Calgary Alberta Child Support Lawyers
Calgary Alberta Child Support Lawyers help you obtain fair child support orders in Calgary and the rest of Alberta. Calgary and the rest of Alberta have been through tough times. These tough times impact child support payments both in the first instance and in cases where separated parents need to negotiate or litigate new Calgary […]
Alberta COVID-19 Urgent Family Law Matters
Alberta COVID-19 Urgent Family Law Matters – UPDATE is provided by our Calgary, Edmonton, Red Deer and Grande Prairie family lawyers. MacLean Law helps family law clients across Alberta and our lawyers are open for business and ready to help you resolve your family matters during COVID-19. Our downtown Calgary family lawyers office provides this […]
Urgent Vancouver Surrey Child Custody Hearings
Urgent Vancouver Surrey Child Custody Hearings are spiking under the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic. In today’s blog Lorne MacLean, QC and Fraser MacLean explain the new rules for Urgent Vancouver Surrey Child Custody Hearings and what evidence a Court will look toward in deciding firstly to hear the application because of urgency and secondly what type […]
