As Lorne N. MacLean, QC top rated loss of excluded property lawyer warned in earlier blogs, placing property into your spouse’s sole or joint name that you have inherited, were gifted personally or that you brought into the marriage can have very nasty consequences on marriage or a relationship breakdown. For the past 2 years our […]
Filing Delay May Reduce Retroactive Child Support
The MacLean family lawyers in Vancouver understand that changes in the circumstances of the child-support paying parent sometimes may justify a variation of child support. Most commonly, the “change of circumstance” is an increase or decrease in the payor’s income or a move of one or more children between homes. Our Vancouver family lawyers also […]
BC Spousal Support and Alimony Update 2009
I recently had the pleasure of appearing in front of the Supreme Court of Canada in the infamous spousal support and spousal misconduct decision of Leskun. That case involved the principles to be applied to deciding the quantum and duration of spousal support in British Columbia and Canada, and in what circumstances it is appropriate […]
