Vancouver Guideline Support Imputed Income lawyers warn that it’s imperative that the correct guideline income is used for the paying spouse’s income to ensure a fair spousal or child support award. Personal tax returns rarely provide an accurate income picture for a paying spouse that owns a company, runs their own professional practice, or who […]
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 […]
Grey Divorce Support Early Retirement
Grey Divorce Support Early Retirement is affecting more and more couples who divorce later in life. Will spousal support change or stop when the payor retires? What happens to spousal support if the payor tries to retire early? In today’s blog senior downtown Vancouver family lawyer Jonathan Wai explains grey divorce support early retirement issues. The […]
Top 5 Vancouver Dirty Divorce Tricks
Top 5 Vancouver Dirty Divorce Tricks are explained today by Lorne N MacLean, QC. MacLean is the founder of MacLean Law, which was voted top Vancouver family law firm for the last 5 out of 6 years by Top Choice Awards*. Over the 36 years of my high conflict and high net worth family law […]
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 […]
Calgary ADR Mediation Family Lawyers
Calgary ADR Mediation Family Lawyers understand that family alternative dispute resolution processes help separated spouses and their children resolve family financial and child parenting matters in a way that allows the parties to be part of shaping the process that lets them move forward successfully after separation. Meet with our Calgary ADR mediation family lawyers […]
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 […]
BC Void Marriages Family Law Act
An important BC Void Marriages Family Law Act ruling was handed down this week by the BC Court of Appeal. The decision was made against the backdrop of a high stakes multimillion-dollar international divorce case involving worldwide family property. Of particular importance to this BC Void Marriages Family Law Act appeal is the purpose of […]
Persian Iranian International Divorce Mahr
Persian Iranian International Divorce Mahr cases involve the interpretation, enforcement or variation of Iranian or Persian Islamic marriage contracts. In today’s blog Iranian and Farsi fluent family lawyer Rana Yavari explains how these Persian Iranian international divorce Mahr marriage contracts from Iran are interpreted in BC courts. “Mahr” has traditionally been known as an Islamic […]