MacLean Law is proud to announce that it has been recognized as an Excellence Awardee for Boutique Law Firm of the Year by the prestigious Canadian Law Awards. This distinction reflects the award winning lawyers and their unwavering commitment to delivering exceptional legal services, advancing family law practice, and achieving results for family law clients […]
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International Family Law Mareva Injunctions
International Family Law Mareva Injunctions are an advanced tool skilled international family lawyers can use to protect hundreds of millions of family and other property from being hidden or going missing. Lorne MacLean KC is a senior ultra high net worth family lawyer and a fellow of the prestigious International Academy of Family Lawyers. MacLean […]
New BC Imputed Support Income Onus Decision
New BC Imputed Support Income Onus Decision provides the following legal principle: Once a party seeking the imputation of income presents the evidentiary basis suggesting a prima facie case for imputation of income (established often by the sheer drop in income earned before by a spouse), the onus shifts to the individual seeking to defend the income […]
BC Separated Spouses Cannot Vary Unfair Wills
BC Separated Spouses Cannot Vary Unfair Wills. We get asked a lot of questions on what happens to estates for separated and divorced spouses. The law is very clear that BC Separated Spouses Cannot Vary Unfair Wills. When parties separate there is an impact on both family law rights of common law spouses and the […]
Sophie Bartholomew Speaks to CTV News on Bigamy in BC
April 10, 2026, from CTV News: A fairy tale that got lost’: Canadian man’s multiple wives say marriage licences should never have been issued A CTV News W5 investigation uncovered significant gaps in how marriage licences are issued across Canada, revealing that most jurisdictions do not verify whether applicants are already legally married. This lack […]
Inside Fraser MacLean’s High Stakes Family Law Practice With Lexpert
Fraser MacLean, one of the leading family lawyers at MacLean Law, was interviewed by Lexpert. The article examined his high-stakes litigation practice and growing influence in complex, ultra-high-net-worth family law disputes. The interview highlights both his courtroom experience and his role in shaping emerging legal issues, including the use of artificial intelligence in litigation. The […]
BC Leave To Appeal Granted To Have Child Advocate Appointed
A new BC Leave to Appeal granted to have child advocate appointed case just came down this week. The recent BC Court of Appeal decision granted leave to appeal an adjournment to trial of a family law application to appoint a child advocate for a 12 year old child. BC Leave To Appeal Granted To […]
BC Non Removal of Child In Family Cases
BC Non Removal of Child In Family Cases including travel to India and China are attracting attention across North American family courts. We often use Jeremy Morley as an expert witness in our international child jurisdiction dispute cases. Our Vancouver and Surrey South Asian and Indian family law disputes lawyers team has a number of […]
International Hague Child Abduction Grave Risk Lawyers
MacLean Law is a leading International Hague Child Abduction Grave Risk lawyers firm. Lorne MacLean, KC is a fellow of the prestigious International Academy of Family Lawyers (“IAFL”) and he specializes in UHNW international family matters as well as international Hague Convention and non-Convention international child custody and parenting disputes including those involving wrongful removal […]
Loss of Privilege For AI Legal Research
These days everyone and their dog is using Chat GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and other Chat AI programs to look up legal cases and arguments. We have seen a number of legal AI hallucination fails with embarrassing and costly consequences to lawyers and self represented parties. MacLean Law dealt with Canada’s first legal hallucination case […]
