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 […]
Step Parent Child Support
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 […]
