Best Judicial Case Conference JCC Tips will help you focus the family law issues in front of a Judge and help narrow the dispute or ideally settle your family law case at an early stage. MacLean Law’s Best Judicial Case Conference JCC Tips are designed to save you time, money and stress. Audra Bayer is […]
Kelowna Estate Litigation Lawyers
Our Kelowna Estate Litigation Lawyers and West Kelowna Unfair Will lawyers at MacLean Estate Litigation warn that when a testator changes their will to remove a beneficiary, they need to also consider designations they have made on pensions, life insurance policies, and joint properties and bank accounts. Failure to change these other designations can lead […]
Calgary Matrimonial Home Exclusive Possession
Calgary Matrimonial Home Exclusive Possession cases are important to our Calgary family law clients and this step often happens early in Calgary family law proceedings. This is the third in a series of blogs on how the Alberta family home is treated on separation. Senior Calgary family lawyers member, Peter Graburn explains how Calgary Matrimonial […]
Calgary Separation Home Sale Lawyers
Calgary Separation Home Sale Lawyers help separated Calgary family law clients, negotiate, mediate, arbitrate or litigate the division or sale of the Calgary family home. Peter Graburn, our senior Calgary family lawyer, writes this article as the second one on the important topic of what happens to the Calgary matrimonial home on separation. Series Part […]
Vancouver Finding Hidden Family Property
Vancouver Finding Hidden Family Assets lawyers are skilled at finding hidden family property, exposing family debts, and finding missing guideline income. MacLean Law family law lawyers have won Top Choice, client voted top Vancouver family law firm for 5 of the past 6 years. Lorne MacLean, QC has been named threeBest divorce lawyer for Vancouver […]
Vancouver Unfair Marriage Agreement Lawyers
Vancouver Unfair Marriage Agreement Lawyers deal with cases where one party that has signed a marriage, prenup or cohabitation agreement wants to attack the fairness of that agreement on separation. Marriage agreements, as well as prenups and cohabitation agreements, can be attacked and set aside on common law grounds of: unconscionability, lack of independent legal […]
Vancouver Unequal Division Of Excluded Property
Vancouver Unequal Division Of Excluded Property is a hot button Vancouver separation issue that our BC Court of Appeal has just dealt with for the first time. When an excluded property is placed in joint names, the exclusion from sharing just its starting value can often be lost and the full value of this asset may […]
Avoid BC Excluded Property Mistakes
Avoid BC Excluded Property Mistakes so that your excluded property is not inadvertently converted to equally shareable family property. They say “nice guys finish last” and this can be true unless you learn how to avoid BC excluded property mistakes. Our new BC Family Law Act and the common-law “presumption of advancement” can cause problems […]
Urgent Property and Personal Protection Orders
Urgent Property and Personal Protection Orders can be a priority at the start of a BC family law case. In today’s blog articled student Jeremy Thomsen sets out some key personal protection and family property preservation orders steps you should consider at the start of a BC or Calgary Alberta family law file. Our firm […]
Top 5 Alberta Family Law Limitation Periods
Top 5 Family Law Limitation Periods in Alberta are key dates Calgary and Alberta family law litigants have to be aware of! Missing any of these limitation periods is catastrophic. Read this blog very carefully and do not procrastinate in your family law case. Lawsuits have fixed time periods in which a Court action must […]
