Is my Chinese foreign family law judgment enforceable in BC? Chinese Foreign Family Judgment Enforcement Lawyers deal with cases where foreign family law judgments may or may not be enforceable in BC. The savvy Chinese Foreign Family Judgment Enforcement Lawyers at MacLean Family Law also handle multi-million dollar cases where BC courts need to determine whether […]
Top* Vancouver Family Lawyers
Are you looking for Top Vancouver Family Lawyers? MacLean Law has some of the Top Vancouver Family Lawyers as selected by satisfied clients and prestigious TOP CHOICE AWARDS. Our lawyers can be reached in Vancouver, Calgary, Surrey, Kelowna, Fort St John and Richmond BC. We are delighted to announce that the Vancouver Family Lawyers 2018 award […]
BC Spousal Support Retirement Lawyers
What happens to spousal support after retirement? What happens to spousal support after retirement? BC SPOUSAL SUPPORT RETIREMENT LAWYERS at MacLean Law deal with the stressful situation of how separating spouses deal with a decline in a family breadwinner’s income. Our top rated lawyers handle cases of early retirement, involuntary retirement, voluntary retirement and cases where […]
Vancouver Family Self Represented Litigants Lawyers
Vancouver Family Self Represented Litigants Lawyers help parties reach closure on family files so each party moves forward successfully. Studies show self represented family parties stay in the family legal system longer with poorer results. Our Vancouver Family Self Represented Litigants Lawyers can provide limited retainer legal advice to help you to focus your arguments to […]
Surrey Significant Unfairness Family Lawyers
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 […]
