The BC spousal support variation team at MacLean Law appreciates the very concise summary presented by Mr. Justice Verhoeven in Lamont v. Johnson, 2016 BCSC 366 concerning the test that must be met for a successful BC spousal support variation application. Our lawyers both apply for and oppose BC spousal support variation applications from all of our 4 offices […]
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 […]
Supervised Child Access
Supervised Child Access and Contact Lorne MacLean, QC has successfully guided his clients in supervised child access and contact cases for over 34 years. He knows that supervised child access is artificial and courts must be careful not to weaken or destroy a parent child bond through this intrusive form of child access regime. Protecting […]
Child Access Child Contact Lawyers
Our child access child contact lawyers handle hundreds of child parenting time, child parenting responsibilities and child access and child contact cases. Our child access child contact lawyers act for primary residential parents, shared parenting spouses and parents seeking child access and child contact. BC guardians get parenting time but BC non-guardian parents get child […]
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 […]
Review of Spousal Support
Lorne MacLean, QC set the law on what a review of spousal support is in Canada in the leading case of Leskun v. Leskun of our Supreme Court of Canada. There is a significant difference in the onus an applicant faces when a review of spousal support is sought as compared to a variation of spousal […]
Varying Child Parenting Arrangements
New BC Appeal Court Sets Test For Varying Child Parenting Arrangements – What should the test be for varying child parenting arrangements? A new BC Court of Appeal case has established the test under our new Family Law Act for varying child parenting arrangements. If the test for varying child parenting arrangements is too high […]
Child Custody Sexual Abuse
Child Custody Sexual Abuse And Expert Witness Misconduct Our high conflict child custody sexual abuse allegation lawyers handle both sides of these explosive family law cases. Judges hearing allegations of child custody sexual abuse need to err on the side of caution and put protections in place when there is some basis to believe the […]
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 […]
