The Vancouver BC inter-jurisdictional Support Orders Act and foreign payor support lawyers at MLG note that a common problem for BC Family Law litigants is enforcing an order or even obtaining an initial order for child support or spousal support from another person who lives outside of BC, whether in another Canadian province or even […]
VANCOUVER SAME SEX DIVORCE, GAY MARRIAGE AGREEMENTS
As same sex spousal support, gay married relationships family property and same sex partners, excluded property lawyers we recently were contacted by a same-sex couple living in the United States who wanted us to write up a pre-nuptial property and support agreement for them, in advance of their Canadian wedding. Their request got us thinking. […]
BIG CHANGES FOR BC UNMARRIED COUPLES, BC MARRIAGE LIKE RELATIONSHIPS AND BC COMMON LAW SPOUSES COHABITATION AGREEMENTS
IMMEDIATE REPEAL OF SECTION 120.1 OF THE BC FAMILY RELATIONS ACT – WHAT IT MEANS TO UNMARRIED COMMON-LAW COUPLES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA Our medium to high net worth common law relationship and marriage like relationship and unmarried couples lawyers want potential BC clients to be aware of massive changes to the rules affecting support and […]
Unmarried Spouses and Common Law Constructive Trust Claims Against Pensions
If you are in a BC common law relationship also called a Vancouver marriage like relationship your present claim to a BC spouse’s pension is far weaker than if you were married to your spouse who has a private pension plan entitlement. The laws on private pension plan division for BC unmarried persons living in […]
BC Family Law Act Excluded Property Lawyers
The BC government has released new Family Law Act Bill that will propose sweeping changes to British Columbia family law. For the 1st time in British Columbia couples in marriage like relationships- also called BC common-law relationships- will now be governed by a statutory presumption of equal division of assets upon marriage breakdown. However, […]
New BC Family Relations Act Definition of BC Spouse Changes BC Common Law Spousal Support and BC Property Rights for BC Unmarried Persons
If you are a BC unmarried person in a BC common law- also called a BC marriage-like relationship- the rules of the game for British Columbia spousal support and for BC property division are about to radically change. The definition of “spouse” that controls the rights you have to spousal support have been expanded due […]
New BC Family Relations Act Reform 2010
New BC Family Law changes- BC Family Relations Act Reform 2010 and the BC Family Law Act White Paper provides dramatic BC Family Law reforms to BC spousal support, BC family property division, BC common law property division, BC child custody-Lorne N. MacLean will be interviewed on the BC Family Relations Act Reform Law , […]
BC Case Alert-Unmarried Couples, BC Marriage Like Relationship and BC Spousal Support
P.P.W. v. R.S.L.B., 2010 BCSC 58 – 2010/01/15 Is an interesting BC unmarried couples, BC common law and BC marriage like relationship case where the BC Supreme Court had to determine if unmarried parties lived in a marriage like relationship” for a period of two years sufficient to justify entitlement to a spousal support award. […]
BC Separation Law for Divorcing and Separating Common Law and Unmarried Spouses
We as British Columbia family law and BC divorce lawyers as well as lawyers acting for unmarried couples are often asked to explain the differences in law that applies to divorcing as opposed to separating unmarried couples. There are several differences between the legal rights of individuals separating from a marriage versus those that are […]
BC Common Law Relationships, unmarried couples and rights to BC child support
A recent BC Supreme Court common law trust and property claim and step parent child support case Hall v. Becker explains nicely how a common law trust claim and property claim work. It also analyses the duty at BC law of a BC step parent to pay BC child support and considers the duty of both the natural father and step parent to pay child support in a case where the mother has re-partnered. A step parent is liable
