Vancouver Discretionary Trust Division Lawyers Case Update The Vancouver Discretionary trust division lawyers at MacLean Law are in the forefront of dealing with and dividing beneficial interests in discretionary trusts and dealing with disputes over family trusts set up by spouses and third parties for the benefit of a spouse. Our Vancouver Discretionary trust division lawyers […]
Joint Tenancy Family Home Dispute
Our joint tenancy family home dispute lawyers deal with cases under the Family Law Act on whether joint tenancy alters the character of excluded property for married couples or those in a marriage like relationship. But what happens when parties don’t marry or live in a marriage like relationship and break up and then get […]
Vancouver RRSP Family Property Lawyers
Our top rated Vancouver RRSP family property lawyers handle hundreds of family property and excluded property cases. Our #1 ranked Vancouver RRSP family property lawyers deal with RRSP and pension division cases routinely and our experienced lawyers warn that these assets have tax consequences that make them different than equity in a family home or cash iun […]
Family Property Division Lawyer
MacLean Law Family Property Division Lawyer has precedent setting win endorsed and applied by BC Court Of Appeal MacLean Law’s family property division lawyers precedent setting win for our client in the Meservy v Field case, was just approved of and applied by BC’s highest court in a recent BC Court of Appeal decision. Since […]
Beneficial Interest In a Discretionary Trust
Lorne N. MacLean, QC, heads our BC beneficial interest in a discretionary trust and family trust property division legal department across BC. MacLean and his team of top rated* family property division lawyers (selected once again as Vancouver’s Best Family Law firm), have been closely watching the new Family Law Act family trust property division […]
Family Law Expert Evidence
New BC Appeal Case Enforces Gatekeeper Role in Family Law Expert Evidence In a key 2016 case involving disputed family law expert evidence, the BC Court of Appeal has sent a stern message to family law lawyers and their clients that they will enforce proper rules for accepting family law expert evidence in all family […]
BC Presumption Of Advancement
BC Presumption Of Advancement On Life Support In Family Cases? BC family property judges have increasingly come to reject the BC presumption of advancement as overriding the clear statutory regime of excluded property in BC related to property brought into a BC spousal relationsip or property gifted to or inherited soley by one spouse. Lorne […]
Parental Gift Excluded Property
Clarity of Intention Counts in Parental Gift Excluded Property Disputes Our parental gift excluded property lawyers warn that when parents want to help their married children with advances of money or other gifts they MUST make their intentions clear at the time of the advance or the transfer of property. Our BC parental gift excluded […]
Family Property Date of Separation
A family property date of separation case requires the court to divide property acquired during the relationship and BEFORE separation. Property acquired post separation that is not derived from property acquired during the relationship is not shared. The date of separation is also relevant for whether spouses have lived together for the required period to […]
BC Separation Agreement Lawyers
MacLean Law’s top rated BC separation agreement lawyers know that many separating couples want to resolve their family law dispute promptly with a properly drafted and fair BC separation agreement. No one wants an expensive trial when they can have one of our skilled senior BC separation agreement lawyers negotiate or mediate a comprehensive BC […]
