Lorne MacLean, Q.C. is the highly rated founder of MacLean Family Law which was just pronounced Vancouver’s top family law firm by Top Choice Awards. Mr. MacLean handles the high asset family property and high income cases that involve businesspersons, stockbrokers, doctors, dentists and other professionals and their spouses in downtown Vancouver and South Surrey […]
Vancouver Family Law Settlements And Agreements
Vancouver Family Law Settlements And Agreements High income and high net worth Vancouver family law lawyer, Lorne MacLean, Q.C. focuses on negotiating, mediating, arbitrating and if necessary litigating complex family law cases. Lorne MacLean, Q.C. heads Vancouver’s top rated family law firm as selected by Top Choice Awards. Most settlements take some time to negotiate […]
Vancouver Spousal Support issues in short marriages with young children
Traditionally, marriages with children, and where one parent has been a homemaker, spousal support is substantial and long lasting. In British Columbia, it is much more common to see marriages with children dissolve in shorter periods of time. It is these custodial or stay-at-home parents who face the most serious disadvantages for long-term financial independence […]
Vancouver Retroactive Spousal Support Lawyer
Vancouver Retroactive Spousal Support Lawyer Vancouver spousal support cases are often highly contentious. Our highly skilled Vancouver Retroactive Spousal Support Lawyer team, headed by Lorne MacLean Q.C. regularly deals with the tricky area of retroactive spousal support. Our Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines allow for a calculation of the amount and the length of spousal support. […]
Vancouver Family Law Appeals Lawyers
Vancouver Family Law Appeals Lawyers BC Family Law Appeals lawyer Lorne MacLean, Q.C. just helped a client succeed on a complex family property and spousal support appeal before BC’s highest court. The award nearly triples spousal support and for the first time in Canada an appellate court decided a stockbroker’s book of business was divisible […]
VANCOUVER SPOUSAL AND CHILD SUPPORT AFTER DEATH
Call us at 604 602 9000 to ensure you are protected in this complex area as support may or may not end on death depending on the agreement or court order made. The British Columbia Court of Appeal (the “Court”) recently released its judgment in McLeod v. McLeod, 2013 BCCA 552 (“McLeod”), clearly stating that […]
Vancouver Early Retirement and Spousal Support
Retirement and Spousal Support by Lorne N MacLean QC Can a Vancouver spousal support paying spouse retire early and cancel or reduce their spousal support payments? Can a receiving spouse refuse to work to get more support? Isn’t a person free to do what they want for a career? All these Vancouver spousal support questions […]
Vancouver Compensatory and Non Compensatory Spousal Support Lawyers
Our BC Court of Appeal recently summarized the two approaches to awarding spousal support in Vancouver spousal support disputes. The two methods are called compensatory spousal support and non-compensatory spousal support. What do these spousal support terms mean? Call highly rated Lorne MacLean, Q.C. at 604 602 9000 to find out. As a result of […]
Vancouver Family Lawyers Explain Marriage Like Relationships
Are You In A Vancouver BC Marriage Like Relationship? Our top rated Vancouver family lawyers, want our Vancouver and BC family law clients and the public to be aware substantial changes to spousal support and property rights are now in effect under the new BC Family Law Act. Thousands of dollars can ride on whether […]
BC Spousal Support: Does Adultery or do Affairs Matter?
MY SPOUSE COMMITTED ADULTERY- DOES IT MEAN I GET MORE OR LESS SPOUSAL SUPPORT AND DOES IT CHANGE MY PROPERTY DIVISION CLAIM? As a top Vancouver spousal support lawyer and lawyer for the husband in the infamous adultery and spousal support case of Leskun heard by Canada’s highest court, I get asked this question a […]
