Our Calgary Family Lawyers Explain New Divorce Act in today’s blog by our Senior Calgary family lawyer, Peter Graburn. The new Divorce Act changes have borrowed heavily from terminology adopted from BC and Calgary Alberta Provincial Statutes. The whole focus on family law today is to get people to resolve matters with a minimum of […]
New Changes To Canada’s Divorce Act Lawyers
MacLean Law’s New Changes To Canada’s Divorce Act Lawyers note that Bill C-78 to update the Divorce Act, 1985 has just been tabled and went through a first reading yesterday. Here’s the link to the bill and an article from the Globe. This is the first time the Divorce Act will be revised since the […]
BC Family Business Property Restraining Orders
Section 91 restraining orders and for high net worth business owners, BC Family Business Property Restraining Orders, help protect putative equal owners of the family business to get their equal share. Lorne MacLean, QC, founder of MacLean Law has been a leader in seeking division of family profits before trial, capping business income draws and […]
Fort St John Dawson Creek Lawyers
The Fort St John Dawson Creek Lawyers of MacLean Law are proud to have opened and continually owned our Fort St John office since 2005. Some 12 years later we continue to provide quality legal services to the North Peace as Western Canada’s largest family law firm. Key staff has been with us since the […]
Vancouver Kelowna Post Separation Coparenting
Vancouver Kelowna Post Separation Coparenting lawyers know that “parents are forever“. Our Vancouver Kelowna Post Separation Coparenting lawyers also are well aware that the single greatest predictor for ensuring your child grows up healthy and successful as an adult is the “absence of parental conflict”. Surprisingly, studies show that whether you coparent and talk jointly […]
Best* Calgary Family Divorce Lawyers Tips
MacLean Law’s top-ranked* Calgary family lawyers provide Best* Calgary family divorce lawyers tips in today’s blog by founder Lorne N. MacLean, QC. It can take more than one year for the parties to obtain a trial date in Calgary, Alberta. Calgary divorce clients, who have been separated more than a year, or who have other grounds […]
Surrey Spousal Assault Family Lawyers
By Tal Wolf MacLean Law’s Surrey spousal assault family lawyers have zero tolerance for domestic violence and abuse. But MacLean Law’s Surrey spousal assault family lawyers also have zero tolerance for false claims of spousal assault or abuse made to gain improper advantage in a family law case, such as wrongfully bolstering possession of property, […]
Vancouver Family Law Act Mediators Best Mediation Practices
Our family law mediators, arbitrators and parenting coordinators always advise our clients that they should not try to negotiate their own family law settlement in the absence of proper legal advice given BEFORE NOT AFTER they make a deal. Our BC family law mediation, arbitration and parenting coordination department is one of BC’s largest, […]
Vancouver Separation Agreements and BC Pension Survivor Benefits
Our BC family lawyers warn clients to ensure they change beneficiary designations on their pensions, life insurance, bank accounts and RRSP’s amongst other assets. What happens when someone can’t change their pension beneficiary because they made an irrevocable designation but they buy out the other spouse’s interest in same? BC Pension division is complex and […]
BC MARRIAGE BREAKDOWN AND FAMILY LAWYERS JOINT TENANCY ALERT
Are you going through a marriage breakdown; or do you have an elderly parent who has placed property in joint tenancy with a spouse or child for creditor protection or estate planning purposes and; are you or a spouse or sibling concerned as to what will happen if one joint tenant dies or a spouse who is separated but not divorced dies before they settle their family case?
