Our Surrey significant unfairness family lawyers assist our clients in resolving family property division and excluded property division ( assets acquired before the relationship started or gifts or inheritances and some other property received by one spouse only during the marriage) cases. The default scheme for family property division is to divide the family property […]
Resolving divorce and family matters with collaborative law
Collaborative Law is an integrated cross-disciplinary system for problem solving in a separation and divorce situations. The MacLean Family law lawyers coordinate their work with other collaborative professionals who specialize in addressing emotional and financial problems of divorce. Other professionals may include communication coaches, financial planners, psychologists and child specialists. Everyone works together as a […]
MacLean Law in the Community
MacLean Law Supports Vancouver Pride Week Vancouver just celebrated another successful Pride Week, including the Pride Parade that brings a fantastic celebration to the streets of Vancouver. Congratulations to the group from The Canadian Bar Association – Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Conference (SOGIC) who organized the Legally Proud float. “SOGIC represents people from all […]
Vancouver Family Law Wealth Preservation Lawyer
Lorne MacLean, Q.C., founder of the highly rated* MacLean Law handles hundreds of complex, later in life middle age separations and divorces. The “grey divorce” wave has hit Canada and BC and a significant portion of our Vancouver high net worth family separation practice relates to wealth preservation strategies at the end of a long term relationship […]
Vancouver High Income Child Support Guideline Amounts Over $150,000 Child Support and Over $350,000 Spousal Support
Vancouver high income spousal support and child support cases involving wealthy couples often involve special “income cap” rules. These special rules allow the court to depart from a strict guideline payment calculation for both spousal and child support. Our family lawyers are please to assist you in this complex area. Call us toll free at […]
EXCLUSIVE POSSESSION AND USE OF THE MATRIMONIAL HOME – A DIFFICULT TEST TO MEET
A common question that newly separated couples sometimes face is: who should stay in the home? Occasionally the parties will continue to live together under the same roof even after separation, for financial reasons or for the benefit of the children. There are times, however, when one (or both) parties no longer wishes to continue […]
BC Interjurisdictional Support Orders Lawyers-Enforcing Child Support And Spousal Support Against a Person Living Outside of BC
The Vancouver BC interjurisdictional Support Orders Act and foreign payor support lawyers at MLG note that a common problem for BC Family Law litigants is enforcing an order or even obtaining an initial order for child support or spousal support from another person who lives outside of BC, whether in another Canadian province or even […]
BC Inter-jurisdictional Support Orders
The Vancouver BC inter-jurisdictional Support Orders Act and foreign payor support lawyers at MLG note that a common problem for BC Family Law litigants is enforcing an order or even obtaining an initial order for child support or spousal support from another person who lives outside of BC, whether in another Canadian province or even […]
BC Cohabitation Agreements, BC Prenuptial Agreements and BC Marriage Agreement Vancouver Family Law and Divorce Lawyers
As BC’s largest family law firm with four offices, including our head office in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, across the Province and 9 lawyers we offer the following advice on agreements to our BC family law clients who are about to embark on what they hope will be a happy and fulfilling relationship whether it […]
BC SPOUSAL AND CHILD SUPPORT ARREARS CANCELLATION AND VARIATION TEST UNFAIR
I disagree with the current and proposed Family Relations Act child or spousal payment arrears (unpaid support) test that establishes there will be no cancellation of support arrears unless it would be “grossly unfair” not to do so. The Act arguably treats common law and married couples differently and applies a one-sided and unfair test […]
