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BC Family Lawyer Tips – The Sale of Your Matrimonial Home Upon Marriage Breakdown

The Sale of your BC Matrimonial Home At the time of marriage breakdown, separation or divorce selling and dividing the proceeds of the Family Home is an issue that we as BC family lawyers deal with daily for our clients at our Vancouver, Kelowna, Surrey, and Fort St. John family law offices. As British Columbia’s […]

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Vancouver and BC Divorce Divorce Lawyer Lorne MacLean Warns- Don’t Leave the Matrimonial Home!

What is “exclusive possession of the matrimonial home” and is it wise to leave the home if your BC marriage is in trouble? Sometimes it feels like you can’t take it anymore and you have to leave the family home for your own sanity. Sometimes you feel you need to leave the matrimonial home because […]

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BC Spousal Separation and Section 57 Declaration Lawyers

Did you know that BC has a deferred shared family asset and family property regime? You should be aware of various BC family triggering events and Section 57 Declaration of no prospect of reconciliation strategies depending on who owns a particular family asset. Post BC family separation triggering events that cause the BC shared family […]

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BC Family Relations Act

Lorne MacLean, Partner at MacLean Family Law and the Attorney General of BC Representatives Discuss the Upcoming Changes to the BC Family Relations Act at CBA Vancouver Family Subsection Meeting BC married and common law persons in strained BC family law relationships who own BC family assets and those considering getting married in BC who […]

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BC FAMILY RELATIONS ACT FAMILY PROPERTY DIVISION REFORMS DEMAND IMMEDIATE ATTENTION BY MARRIED AND UNMARRIED PERSONS

Lorne MacLean, Partner at MacLean Family law Group and the Attorney General of BC Representatives Discuss the Upcoming Changes to the BC Family Relations Act at CBA Vancouver Family Subsection Meeting BC married and common law persons in strained BC family law relationships who own BC family assets and those considering getting married in BC […]

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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 , […]

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BC Family Asset & BC Property Division – New Rules

BC Family Law and Interim Distribution of BC Family Assets and Advances to Pay BC Legal Fees: Who Pays the Piper in Divorce? We are all familiar with the notion that he who pays the piper calls the tune, but what happens when you don’t have the money to pay the piper? In contested divorce […]

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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. […]

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Adultery and Misconduct in BC Divorce and British Columbia Separation

Many BC divorce and British Columbia Separated parents involved in a BC child custody case think their chances of receiving child custody, more or less support, or a larger share of the family property will change if their spouse has had an affair. In reality an affair has little if any impact on the issues […]

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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 […]

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