Family Property Division Archives

Enforcing Family Law Financial Disclosure

Enforcing Family Law Financial Disclosure has become a priority for family courts across Canada. Our Enforcing Family Law Financial Disclosure lawyers have been a the forefront in stamping out failures to disclose in family law cases and we hold several precedents and records for enforcing family law financial disclosure. Vancouver Enforcing Family Law Financial Disclosure […]

How do you hire the Best West Vancouver Family Lawyers? Word of mouth from satisfied clients and even opposing parties who wished they hired us first, a history of awards for excellence in medium to high net worth separations both on financial and child parenting issues, and record wins in cases just like yours, are […]

Best Vancouver Korean Family Lawyers help Korean speaking family law clients successfully resolve their Vancouver Korean Family law Matters. MacLean Law has one of the largest Mandarin, Cantonese and Vancouver Korean speaking family law teams. Finding the Best Vancouver Korean Family Lawyers requires a thorough investigation of which Vancouver family lawyers have a track record […]

Oral Family Property Agreements Lawyers help you paper a deal so you save thousands if not millions. It is well known that fairly negotiated written family agreements can have a significant impact on family law disputes in the courts. Surprisingly to many family law clients, In British Columbia, oral family agreements regarding property division are […]

Family Business Division Support Lawyers deal with business owners’ pretax profits guideline income, valuation, and division of family business property and how the value of the business that the business owner retains interplays with the award of child support and spousal support. Our top rated Family Business Division Support Lawyers deal with high net worth cases […]

High Net Worth Mandarin Chinese Family Lawyers at MacLean Law, serve your family law needs involving: international family law property and support disputes involving choice of law such as Chinese matrimonial law or BC law and country should hear these matters; international child parenting cases involving choice of jurisdiction and return or non-removal orders orders; […]

Vancouver Discretionary Trust Family Lawyers are frequently asked:mWhat happens to the assets in a Discretionary Trust upon the breakdown of a relationship? This question was recently considered in the case of Cottrell v. Cottrell, 2022 BCSC 1607. The key issue often involves whether a spouse or third party created the trust. Trusts created by a […]

MacLean Law’s Vancouver Unjust Enrichment Family Lawyers note a great summary of what the test is to make a common law unjust enrichment claim against property based on equity. Vancouver Unjust Enrichment Family Lawyers help clients pursue these claims both in family and in estate dispute cases. Our top rated Vancouver Unjust Enrichment Family Lawyers […]

The Problem in Valuing BC Discretionary Trusts

The Problem with Valuing BC Discretionary Trusts has bedeviled lawyers for decades and there is a recent trend toward assigning zero value to an ex-spouse’s beneficial interest in third party created trusts. Family lawyers for the non-beneficiary spouse will need to resort to the age old if and when approach in dealing with cases of […]

Vancouver Family Property Business Division lawyers need special knowledge to properly value the income generated by the family business as well as its value. It just makes good sense to hire a high net worth family lawyer with proven experience in: calculating the income the family business generates for spousal and child support rather than […]