It Feels Really Good to Help Our Clients Succeed-Lorne MacLean Family Lawyer
I was at a recent seminar that focused on how lawyers could collaborate successfully on behalf of but more importantly with their clients. The speaker said that the most satisfied lawyers were those that did not view their profession as a job, nor even a career but the most successful and grateful lawyers were those that viewed their role as lawyer as a calling. It was a eureka moment and I banged the table and said “hey that is me!”
We are client focused, understand the pressure and distress our clients are under, provide value for dollar and are committed to helping our clients.
Our Family Law clients deserve to be treated like human beings, not case files. Our clients are our most valuable asset – they are the purpose of our work, not an interruption. We are dependent on them.
We provide our Family Law clients with the most attentive and courteous service that we can because they deserve it. We are empathetic and compassionate in dealing with our Family Law clients’ legal needs.
Children deserve to be protected in a divorce, not treated like an asset to be traded or bargained for.
We believe clients should be informed about the legal process because every step we take has an effect on them.
We constantly strive to increase our legal knowledge and hone our professional expertise because we believe our clients deserve the best.
We make our best efforts at a fair, negotiated settlement because our clients deserve it. We try to equip our Family Law clients with every opportunity to move forward with a satisfying post-divorce life.
We know that our clients time is just as valuable as ours.
Kelowna Family Lawyer and Okanagan Divorce Lawyer MacLean on Family Matters TV Set Loves The Ratings From His Delighted Clients Below
Kelowna family lawyer, Lorne MacLean, the founding partner of British Columbia’s largest family law firm with 10 family law lawyers and 4 offices including our Kelwona family lawyer office across the province located in downtown Vancouver, Surrey, Kelowna, West Kelowna, and Wetsbank and Fort St. John is delighted to be able to assist clients in Kelowna, Vernon, Penticton and the surrounding Okanagan area. Our Kelowna family law lawyers have over 60 years of combined experience in assisting Kelowna family law and divorce law clients in complex divorce matters, high net worth Kelowna divorce matters, high conflict Kelowna child custody and guardianship and access matters and Lorne MacLean has acted throughout British Columbia, in all levels of courts of British Columbia, in the Alberta Court of Queen’s bench, and twice in the Supreme Court of Canada on precedent-setting cases involving child custody and guardianship and access and spousal support. We pride ourselves on our Vancouver work ethic and our creative strategies that allow parties to move on with their lives as winners after divorce.
Lorne MacLean is also delighted to have been asked to guest on Family Matters TV with Judge Harvey Brownstone and the show will be airing across Canada starting in September of 2011. Look for our other lawyers who are also guesting on the Family Matters TV show in the coming months.
Top Ratings For MacLean From Happy Clients
My husband and I were fortunate to have an initial consultation with Mr. MacLean with regards to my husband’s child custody/spousal support issues. Mr. MacLean gave us direction on what questions we needed to ask ourselves to ensure that we were doing what was best for the children and for us. He explained the best way to portray our situation to the courts, particulary by showing us the main points in our case which justified our concerns. I found Mr. MacLean to be extremely professional and passionate about his work. He appears to treat every client with the most respect and concern for his/her case and that is one of the most important qualtites in a lawyer. I also follow Mr. MacLean on his public facebook page where I have … Show full review
Lorne MacLean Family Law Group provided me with a strong commitment to seek justice and ensure quality care was taken in dealing with my legal matter. I found they are attentive to complex, financial issues and have in-depth knowledge and wisdom regarding family law issues – especially in the area of child/spousal support. I had confidence in their ability to represent me well, give sound advice, and advocate in the best interest of my children and I. Lorne MacLean and his firm have high professional standards and integrity and I received nothing short of exceptional care.
Please call us at our Kelowna local number 1-250-861-9002.
ronak@bcfamilylaw.ca وکلای طلاق و فامیلی لا در نورت ونکور و وست ونکور در خدمته شما در دفتره مکلین فامیلی لا گروپ هستند. ۱ ۸۷۷ ۶۰۲ ۹۹۰۰ و ۱ ۶۰۴ ۶۰۲ ۹۰۰۰. با ایمیله روناک یوسفی تماس بگیرید
Lorne MacLean partner and Leena Yousefi Farsi speaking Persian Iranian lawyer discuss the services we provide to the Vancouver, West Vancouver and North Vancouver medium to high net worth Farsi speaking clientele. We bring sensitivity and an understanding of the cultural factors unique to Persian family members and provide adept strategies to fairly apportion financial consequences and benefits after marriage breakdown and during divorce proceedings.
وکلای ونکور بریتیش کلمبیا با زبانه فارسی در خدماته شما هستند. خوشحال میشیم در خدماته شما باشیم
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Lorne MacLean Partner at the MacLean Law Group and Leena Yousefi, Farsi Speaking Persian Iranian lawyer at MacLean Law Group explain the techniques we use at the MacLean Law Group to help our Persian clients legally and promptly immigrate to Canada.
Whether you are a business class entrepreneur or investor class applicant, a skilled worker class applicant or are a family class sponsorship applicant your first call if you want to immigrate to Canada should be to us at our downtown Vancouver British Columbia office. Call Leena Yousefi at 604-602-9000 or email her at ronak@bcfamilylaw.ca.
Lorne MacLean 很乐意提供广东讲话家庭律师给你。We are pleased to have added Cantonese speaking Vancouver and Richmond Lawyer, Jennifer Lin, 温哥华和说离婚和家庭律师的里士满广东人 to our medium to high net worth family law and divorce litigation team to better serve our Cantonese speaking clientele with sensitive and discrete resolutions for their family members upon divorce or marriage breakdown. We bring tenacity and creative solutions to resolving financial and custody matters taking into account cultural factors including contributions from parents and extended family members. We are also adept at preparation of marriage agreements and prenuptial agreements to ensure disparate contributions or gifts or inheritances from one side or the other are fairly protected.
Jennifer Lin graduated from the University of Victoria Law School in 2010.
During her time at UVic, she enrolled in the Law Centre clinical term,
where she handled Family, Criminal and Civil Law files and earned the
Legal Aid Clinic Prize for excellence.
Jennifer subsequently articled with a criminal law firm in downtown
Toronto, where she gained considerable courtroom experience in complex
criminal matters ranging from tax fraud to murder. She is eager to be
returning to B.C. to join MacLean Family Law Group as an associate in
August 2011.
Jennifer speaks Cantonese and French, and is learning Mandarin to better
serve our Chinese speaking clients in Vancouver and Surrey. In her spare
time, she enjoys cycling and reading.
Call Jennifer Lin or her paralegal Rosanna Lin at our downtown Vancouver office at 604-602-9000.
MacLean Family Law Group's Kelowna Family Lawyer Office is now Open
We are offering our last set of free BC divorce and family law appointments with senior family lawyer Lorne MacLean at our new Kelowna divorce and family law office on Friday, August 19, 2011.
For those of you who want more free general advice and cutting edge strategies to let you become a divorce winner see our website at www.bcfamilylaw and become a fan of our Facebook page and follow us on twitter at bcfamilylaw!
Lorne MacLean Kelowna Divorce lawyer and medium to high net worth family lawyer and divorce lawyer is pleased to announce the opening of MacLean Family Law Group’s new BC Family Law and Divorce office in Kelowna BC to serve family law clients from the Okanagan cities such as Rutland, Vernon, West Kelowna, Summerland, Peachland, Penticton, Oliver and Osoyoos. The 4th family law office office of the firm located across BC is located at 347 Leon Avenue, Suite #210 Kelowna, BC V1Y 8C7 Canada and our new phone number is 250-861-9002. We are offering free Kelowna divorce and family law lawyer appointments both in person in Kelowna or by Skype or Telephone Consultation until the end of August 2011. Call us at the local number or toll free at 1-877-602-9900. Mr. MacLean has 28 years of experience handling big divorces just like yours and he has assembled a great team of 9 associates who share his passion for helping their family law clients succeed. We can’t protect your heart but we will protect your rights. Our main office is on the waterfront in downtown Vancouver and we bring a downtown Vancouver work ethic and a familiarity with complex and high net worth cases to our clients in Kelowna.
Sumit Ahuja our Punjabi and Hindi speaking Vakeel and Surrey Law office based family law, divorce law, immigration law and criminal law lawyer explains the MacLean Law Group’s approach to handling every divorce and family law client’s case.
Mr. Ahuja would be delighted to meet with you at our Surrey family law office at 1688-152nd Street office in South Surrey. Call him at 604-560-6007.
Lorne MacLean and the MacLean Family Law Group have 4 offices throughout BC to help you in downtown Vancouver, Surrey, Kelowna and Fort St John and we handle cases throughout the Province of BC and in Alberta as well.
Mr. MacLean recently had a great client success winning a Calgary Alberta shared child custody case involving a week on week off shared custody arrangement of a 10 month old infant where our client lived in BC and the mother had gone to Alberta. The key to winning difficult cases is tenacity and steadfast determination to focus on the client’s success.
We can’t protect your heart but we can protect your rights.
Call any of our 4 offices in downtown Vancouver, Surrey, Kelowna or Fort St John or call us toll free across North America at 1-877-602-9900.
We can’t protect your heart but we can protect your rights.
BC Marriage Annulment Lawyer MacLean and Julie Celebrate her 25th Year at MFLG
As Vancouver BC marriage breakdown and annulment and divorce lawyers we often are approached by people who feel they should be entitled to have their marriage annulled. As we detail below getting an annulment in British Columbia is difficult at law. In cases where an annulment is not possible the spouses can seek a divorce to end their marriage.
Marriage in BC gives rise to legal rights and responsibilities. Whether a marriage is legally binding may not be impacted by the motive for marrying, whether the parties live together or even consummate the marriage, or the quality of the relationship. There is a heavy onus on an applicant for an annulment to rebut the presumption of a valid marriage.
An annulment of a marriage can be granted on the basis that the marriage was void “ab initio” (of no legal effect from the beginning), or voidable (valid but capable of being set aside by a Court). A marriage entered into by a party incapable of consenting is void ab initio, and the Court simply declares that the marriage never happened.
Cases where annulments have been refused include: (more…)
The aging population of BC married couples, as well as those unmarried spouses who live together in a marriage like relationship (given changes proposed to our Family Relations Act) means there are now far more divorcing or separating couples over the age of 60. A special problem for separating couples exists when parties are of an advanced age and their mental acuity declines. Second marriages of elderly spouses open the door to disagreements between this spouse’s children and the new spouse regarding the assets and estate of the elderly bride or groom particularly near the end of the spouse’s life.
A more critical concern is what happens when the elderly spouse loses or begins to lose their capacity to manage their own affairs as the risk of improper influence by old and new family members at this time rises.
Finally, triggering events that are required for property division rights in BC become critical when one or both parties become ill, mentally infirm, or are near death.
The most common event used to provide property rights to a separating spouse is called a section 57 declaration that the two married spouses have no prospect of reconciliation. The highest court in BC just dealt with the issue of what the level of mental fitness a separating spouse must have in Wolfman-Stotland.
In this case the wife with cognitive impairment felt that the fact her husband fell asleep at Bingo was a “divorceable offense”! Here’s what the BCCA said on the issue of what level of mental capacity is needed to separate:
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