Our Vancouver step parent child support and BC child support lawyers handle all types of natural and step parent child support cases. We have won key appeals where the respective duties of a natural parent and a step parent are considered and weighed. Our step parent support lawyers also look at cases where the relationship […]
Vancouver Parenting Time Denial
Vancouver denial of parenting time lawyers understand the heartbreak of a child being deprived of the love and guidance of two loving and caring parents after relationship breakdown. Lorne MacLean, QC was the winning counsel on Young v. Young, Canada’s leading case on the principle of a child being entitled to “maximum contact” with both […]
Vancouver Spousal Support Lawyers
Our Vancouver spousal support lawyers understand that the start date of support is critical both for the spouse who requires support as well as for the person who has to pay it. Many times, for a variety of reasons, our Vancouver spousal support lawyers are asked to deal with the prickly issue of retroactive spousal support. […]
Undue Hardship Support
Our undue hardship support lawyers at MacLean Law often need to review claims for undue hardship by paying spouses related to support payments for their children. This undue hardship support exception was put in the Child Support Guidelines back in 1997 when it first came into force. Winning an undue hardship support case is very […]
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 […]
Spousal Support Economic Self Sufficiency
The spousal support economic self sufficiency lawyers at MacLean Family Law have noticed an increased and welcome focus by the BC courts on the importance of spousal support claimants striving for economic self sufficiency. In the early 1980’s the “clean break” break principle was in vogue but since then a more generous support entitlement analysis […]
Surrey Spousal Support SSAG Lawyer
Our Surrey spousal support SSAG lawyer team routinely explains to our spousal support clients that the correct calculation of spousal support is tricky. Be careful to hire an experieinced Surrey spousal support SSAG lawyer or you may overpay or receive thousands of dollars less each year than you should. Our top Surrey spousal support SSAG lawyer group […]
Vancouver Family Appeal
Vancouver appellate lawyer Lorne N. MacLean, QC handles complex Vancouver family appeal cases including appeals on financial and child parenting issues to both of the BC Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada. Mr. MacLean represented Ms. Young in her successful Vancouver family appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada in the leading […]
卑诗省分离协议书及财产划分的相关法律
麦克连律师事务所的资深卑诗分离协议律师们深知，许多准备要分离的夫妻都想利用一份专业、正规的卑诗分离协议书来调节他们的家庭纠纷。卑诗省新施行的《家庭法法令》（Family Law Act）更提倡用正规而公平的卑诗分离协议书。BC省对分离协议书有经验的律师——特别是在麦克连律师事务所的律师团队——都知道：离婚双方都应该尽可能在最早的阶段就请律师
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 […]
