Many BC family law clients who separate or divorce after lengthy marriages have employment pensions. Thes BC pensions may be defined benefit pensions or defined contribution pensions. These BC family pensions are often more valuable than all of the other assets of both spouses combined and we are shocked to see how often mistakes are […]
BC High Income Support Lawyer
Vancouver and BC high net asset divorce and high income spousal and child support cases bring into play a number of exceptions and special challenges. After listening to our explanation of the Spousal Support and Child Support Guidelines, our high income earner clients can be forgiven for concluding “so it’s like the story of Robin […]
BC Child Support For Adult Children
Child support is the right of the child in British Columbia. People often ask our MacLean Law child support lawyers “how long do I have to pay child support?” We advise them that if they are obliged to pay BC child support as a parent, or as a step parent, then their obligation will last […]
Special Costs BC Family Law
BC family law cases can be very stressful and frustrating for both spouses. Each side wants to have their position endorsed by the courts. Often both sides have reasonable but differing positions that a judge must pick from to decide a BC family law case. After deciding a BC family case, the family law judge […]
Surrey Family Law Mediation Arbitration
MacLean Law has one of the largest and most experienced family law negotiation, mediation, arbitration and litigation teams in Surrey and our other 3 offices across BC. We have 4 senior family mediators, family law arbitrators and child parenting coordinators that can capably assist you in reaching a prompt resolution of your family law case. […]
Fort St John Legal Career
We seek an adventurous family law, personal injury and estate litigation lawyer for our Fort St John office. This career opportunity suits a lawyer who loves the outdoors and beauty of the Peace River area and someone who is passionate about making a difference. This Fort St John Legal Career opportunity provides amazing trial court and […]
Family Law Careers Vancouver and Surrey
MacLean Law is undergoing a robust expansion and we seek high quality intermediate family law lawyers,with 3-9 years experience, for our Vancouver and Surrey offices. This is an exceptional opportunity to enhance the quality of work you receive and to develop a stellar legal reputation with a team of well positioned family lawyers in one […]
BC Self Employed Guideline Income Calculation Lawyers
BC Spousal and Vancouver child support cases involve the use of support guidelines to reach a fair payment for all parties involved in a support dispute. The Child support guidelines and the Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines ONLY work when the correct amount of income is used for both spouses. Our BC Self Employed Guideline Income […]
High Income BC Child Support
Lorne MacLean, QC the founder of MacLean Law, handles a number of high income BC child support guideline disputes. MacLean Law routinely negotiates, mediates and litigates BC child support disputes on behalf of paying and recipient spouses. How Do BC Child Support Guidelines Work? Did you know before 1997 that BC child support was tax […]
Family Property Lawyers
The experienced Vancouver family property lawyers and BC family property division and valuation lawyers at MacLean Law routinely handle medium to high net worth BC family property and British Columbia excluded property claims. In earlier blogs we’ve discussed how BC excluded property is dealt with. Today we will explain how the BC and Vancouver family […]
