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FREE BC FAMILY LAW ACT LAWYER SEMINAR AT MACLEAN FAMILY LAW GROUP’S NEW SURREY FAMILY LAW OFFICE

Sunday, January 29th, 2012

After several weeks of hard work all of the family lawyers at the MacLean Family Law Group are now into their  two new offices in suite 2010-1075 West Georgia in downtown Vancouver and at the intersection of 152nd St. and # 10 Highway in Surrey in Suite 303-15240 #10 Highway.

 

All of the lawyers at our firm are committed to giving back a certain amount of free BC family law legal information to the public as part of our commitment to pro bono legal services in British Columbia. We will be holding monthly free BC family law and divorce seminars at our new Surrey state-of-the-art multimedia boardroom. In the past our seminars have been extremely popular and you must register to attend. Our 1st seminar to be held in the last week of February on the afternoon of Saturday February 25, 2012.

The seminar is restricted to 15 guests although the presentation will be filmed for release on our website as part of our video family law education initiative.

Our inaugural seminar at our Surrey boardroom will explain the dramatic changes that will take effect later this year as a result of broad revisions to family law in British Columbia as result of our new BC FAMILY LAW ACT.

The seminar is  called “BIG Changes To BC Family Law Are Now Here Under the New BC Family Law Act”

Call now to book your seat for this game changing BC family law seminar. If you don’t know about the huge changes to family law that are now upon us isn’t it about time you found out?

Contact Carrie at 604-576-5400 to book your spot today.

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Lorne MacLean Q.C. 近日被任命為卑詩省御用大律師，而此榮譽只有百分之四的卑詩省律師可取。

Wednesday, January 4th, 2012


Lorne MacLean, Q.C. 近日被任命為卑詩省御用大律師，而此榮譽只有百分之四的卑詩省律師可取。Vancouver chinese speaking family lawyers.

Lorne MacLean Q.C. 帶領卑詩省最大的家庭律師事務所，總共有十位律師及四所分公司，分別在 Downtown Vancouver, Surrey, Fort St. John 和 Kelowna.公元前中国家庭律师

普通話服務請同 Nancy Chen 聯絡。 電郵： nchen@bcfamilylaw.ca 廣東話服務請同Jennifer Lin 聯絡。 電郵：jlin@bcfamilylaw.ca
普通話/廣東話服務聯絡電話：（604）682-6466

星島日報最近有關 Lorne MacLean Q.C. 的新聞報導:

聖誕元旦分手黃金檔期 夫婦輔導員：這肯定是個模式

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雖然聖誕節及元旦假期向來是相愛的人共聚的美好時光，但有專家表示，這些日子也變成分手的熱門日子，原因是假日帶來諸如見家長等方面的壓力，而且隨之而來的是財政問題。

根據專家的意見，年輕的情侶及結婚多年的人在11月底及1月初分手的機會增加，當中的分別是蜜運中的男女會在聖誕節之前便分手，而已結婚的夫婦會忍耐至元旦過後才離婚。

多倫多的治療師兼關係專家莫菲(Kimberly Moffit)表示，節日的某些東西令人整理本身的生活，尤其是愛情關係方面。

她表示，再加上購買禮物，派對應酬及家人團聚的壓力，足以破壞甚至乎成熟的關係。

她補充稱，她的工作通常在每年這個時候變得多起來。

雖然難以找到任何學術的研究來證明這個現象，事例卻不缺乏。

網上的論壇有很多人在這個每年最快樂的節日期間尋找安慰，以及修補關係的忠告。

去年面書(Facebook)個人資料的調查顯示，11月底及12月初是轉為「單身」身分的黃金時間。

亞伯達省紅鹿(Red Deer)夫婦輔導員麥克勞德(Debra MacLeod)表示，約會中的伴侶傾向於在聖誕節前分手，而夫婦則押後至新年。

她說，這肯定是一個模式。

見家長或財政爭執是因素

她說，部分在蜜運中的人會因為感覺感情降溫而分手。

她補充稱，另一些人也許因為面對可能會出現求婚場面而分手。

莫菲表示，對於很多伴侶來說，不論是否夫婦，分手來自壓力，而這些壓力則由親屬或本身兩人所造成，原因涉及要實踐一些無可能的完美節日安排。

她說，人們會考慮是否把對象帶回家中與父母見個面，而這會令都這些人對本身的對象重新作出考慮。

卑詩省的MacLean Family Law Group的麥克連(Lorne MacLean)表示，財政的爭執也是導致節日分手的1個主要因素。

他說，夫婦通常試圖在節日保持關係，以免破壞子女的假期。

他表示，當開始收到帳單，快樂的一面通常都出現裂痕。

他又說，對於他的律師行來說，1月份首個星期的離婚個案最多。

有一些人認為在年初辦離婚而非在年底會有稅務的好處，但麥克連表示，情況並非如此。

他說，這與稅務利益無關，這也不會帶來策略上的好處，而是象徵的性質，因為是新年新開始。

資源來源：加通社

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Top Surrey Family Lawyer, ICBC and Personal Injury Law, Immigration Law and Estate Litigation Lawyers and Best Legal Administrative Assistants Job Opportunity

Sunday, January 1st, 2012

The BC family law lawyer firm of MacLean Law Group is ready to open its new flagship Surrey Office at 152nd and #10 Highway. We already have 4 offices across BC located in downtown Vancouver, Surrey, Kelowna and Fort St John BC and our clients for years have asked us to open a Surrey office which we did last summer.  We are committed to being the best Surrey family lawyers and top ICBC and personal Injury law, immigration law and estate litigation law legal firms in the Fraser Valley. Lorne MacLean Q.C. leads the firm and has assembled an unbelievable team of associates and legal support staff at all of the firm’s locations. We are looking to continue to grow our expanding practice by adding 1-5 year call associates and experienced legal administrative assistants.

We already had a dedicated team of 5 lawyers in place at our Surrey Office but are always looking for top legal and legal administrative talent from the medium to large law firms of downtown Vancouver who have the drive and ambition to propel our firm even higher.  Our clients are medium to high net worth individuals seeking focused and dedicated legal representation.

  • We work hard but for us practising law is not a job, nor merely a career, rather we view it as our calling.
  • Do you want more courtroom experience than you get at a big firm?
  • Do you like people more than paper?
  • Does helping people make you glow inside and get your juices pumping?
  • Do you look forward to settling matters fairly and quickly but if this isn’t possible are you confident in your courtroom skills?

If you approach practising law either as a lawyer or assistant as we do then submit your resume to sumit@bcfamilylaw.ca or call him at 604-560-6007.

Our philosophy is:

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Victoria Family Lawyers-MacLean Family Law Group To Open A Victoria BC Family Law Office

Friday, December 23rd, 2011

Lorne MacLean QC with Victoria BC AG Representatives discuss the new BC Family Law Act


Lorne MacLean QC head of the MacLean Family Law Group has been asked by a number of Victoria family law clients to open a Victoria BC family law and divorce law office. Mr MacLean’s 10 lawyer and 4 existing family law office law firm already handles a number of Victoria BC Supreme Court family law files and we look forward to hearing from potential new family law clients in Victoria so we can set up initial consultations with them. We specialize in resolving high net worth and high conflict family law files.

Lorne MacLean QC also recently appeared in Victoria on the popular legal matters TV show Family Matters TV with Judge Harvey Brownstone.

We feel the sooner we bring a realistic assessment to a file the quicker and more fairly it can be resolved.

If you are a Victoria family law client call us now toll free 1-877-602-9900 to set up an initial consultation.

Lorne MacLean QC was just quoted across Canada on the stress of the Christmas Holidays and the impact it has on increasing divorce rates in Canada.

Paola Loriggio, The Canadian Press

Date: Thursday Dec. 22, 2011 7:38 PM ET

TORONTO — While the holidays have always been a time to be with those you love, experts say they’ve also become the time to ditch the one you don’t.

Young lovebirds and old marrieds alike are more likely to pull the plug on their relationship in the stretch between late November and early January, experts say.

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Lorne MacLean QC, Vancouver Family Lawyer, Honoured To Be Appointed a BC Queen’s Counsel

Thursday, December 22nd, 2011

Lorne MacLean QC Vancouver BC Family Lawyer

Lorne MacLean has just been appointed a BC Queen’s Counsel an honour reserved for just 4 percent of the lawyers in British Columbia. Mr MacLean heads BC’s largest family law firm with 10 lawyers and 4 offices across BC located in downtown Vancouver, Surrey, Fort St John and Kelowna.

Twenty-eight receive Queen’s counsel honour

VICTORIA – Twenty-eight British Columbia lawyers have been appointed Queen’s counsel, Attorney General Shirley Bond announced.

The Queen’s counsel designation is an honour conferred on members of the legal profession to recognize exceptional merit and contribution. Successful candidates demonstrate professional integrity and good character and must be members of the British Columbia bar for at least five years.

Each September, the attorney general calls for Queen’s counsel nominations from the public. The 2011 deadline for submissions was Oct. 14. All applications were reviewed by an advisory committee, which recommended deserving candidates to the attorney general. The appointments are subsequently made by cabinet through an order-in-council.

The advisory committee includes the chief justice of British Columbia, the chief justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, the chief judge of the Provincial Court, the president of the Law Society of British Columbia, a Law Society member appointed by the benchers (directors) and the deputy attorney general. The committee also seeks the views of the Canadian Bar Association (B.C. branch).

Lorne Neil MacLean of Vancouver has practiced in the area of family law since 1983. He is the sole partner of MacLean Family Law Group, with offices in Vancouver, Surrey, Kelowna and Fort St. John. His practice focuses on spousal and child support, property, custody and access and common-law relationships.

To contact Lorne N. MacLean QC directly email him at lorne@bcfamilylaw.ca .

See the Attorney General of BC”s Press Release

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VANCOUVER AND SURREY WHITE COLLAR BC CRIMINAL DEFENCE LAWYERS

Tuesday, December 20th, 2011

White Collar Criminal Defence lawyer Mike Jakeman


We as BC white collar crime and corporate fraud and securities defence lawyers have a problem with recent tactics proposed by New RCMP Police Commissioner, Bob Paulson, regarding BC White-Collar Crime.

There has been much to do about the recent changes to white-collar crime. Just prior to May’s election Bill C-21, the Standing Up for Victims of White-Collar Crime Act was passed with all party support and this came into force on November 1, 2011. However, the challenges prosecuting these crimes may not be the laws or the penalties but the tactics used by the police to enforce these violations under the Criminal Code.

The enforcement may now be changing as the new Commissioner has stated that the white-collar crime units have “their strategy all wrong” (Globe and Mail, December 19, 2011 at 7:11 pm: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/new-rcmp-head-takes-tough-line-on-white-collar-crime/article2276986/). In this article it suggests the Commissioner may be ready to overhaul the police or the Integrated Market Enforcement Teams (“IMET”) collection of evidence from simply the passive referrals from the provincial securities regulators to actual integrated or shared information and may even include under-cover investigations.

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Vancouver Family Lawyers at MacLean Law Group Quadruples Size of Law Offices

Thursday, December 15th, 2011

Lawyer Ari Wormeli and Articled Student Nancy Chen at the New MFLG West Georgia Office

The Vancouver BC family law lawyers at www.bcfamilylaw.ca are delighted to be opening 2 new 3000 ft.² state-of-the-art family law offices in downtown Vancouver and Surrey British Columbia. Our new Vancouver office is located at Suite 2010-1075 W. Georgia St., Vancouver British Columbia and her phone number remains the same at 604-602-9000. Our new Surrey office will be opening at the end of January 2012 and it will be located on the top floor of the conveniently located at the Panorama Place development at the corner of # 10 highway and 152nd St. in Surrey BC.

Our new phone number for our flagship Surrey office at 303-15240 #10 HWY (56th Ave) in South Surrey located in South Surrey is 604-576-5400.


Our New Surrey Office painted in our official colours.

Lorne MacLean QC was recently interviewed by the Canadian press on why divorces spike just after the Christmas holidays. Listen for Lorne Maclean’s comments on December 22, 2011 in your local newspaper on local radio and TV stations.

At MacLean Family Law Group we note that there are some great books for assisting parents and their children after separation that can be used by BC parents going through marriage breakdown and BC child custody and guardianship and BC child access issues.

Here they are:

  • Why Did You Have to Get a Divorce, and When Can I Get a Hamster? Anthony Wolf, Noonday Press, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
  • Mom’S House, Dad’s House: Making Two Homes for Your Child. Isolina Ricci, Fireside.
  • Mom’s House, Dad’s House for Kids: Feeling at Home in One Home or Two. Isolina Ricci, Fireside.
  • What to Expect: The Toddler Years. Arlene Eisenberg, Heidi Murkoff and Sandee Hathaway, Workman Publishing Company
  • Growing up with Divorce, Helping Your Child Avoid Immediate and Later Emotional Problems. Neil Kalter, Fawcett Colubine Book, published by Ballentine Books.
  • How to Talk to Your Children About Divorce. Jill Jones-Soderman, Sheila Steinberg, and Allison Quattrocchio, Family Mediation Center Publishing Co.
We encourage you as parents who may be going through increased stress over the holiday season to seek counselling for your marriage troubles and try to remember the positives as well as negatives that you see in your partner. Overspending and overindulging  in alcohol or other mood altering substances and can lead to poor decisions that cause divorce rates to spike at or after Christmas.  We are already swamped helping our existing clients reach a positive outcome in their cases.  We would be delighted as you will be if you can reach a successful compromise that continues your relationship. If this is not possible then call us immediately so you are not in the dark.
We can’t protect your heart but we can protect your rights. Call us at 1-877-602-9900.

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Canadian Experience Class BC Immigration Lawyers Update

Wednesday, November 16th, 2011

Vancouver BC Canada CEC class immigration lawyers

More economic immigrants taking advantage of fast track!

Annually, Canada is attracting an increasing number of economic migrants. Introduced three years ago, the economic immigrant class is the first new avenue of obtaining permanent residency in Canada in decades.

Immigration Canada and the Canadian Experience Class program now fast tracks permanent residency applications for skilled foreign workers and graduate students who have spent time in Canada on temporary and/or student visas.

As stated by Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, “The number of foreigners admitted under the Canadian Experience Class program is expected to rise to 7,000 in 2012 from 2,545 in 2009.”

This program has been referred to as Canada’s most pragmatic effort to encourage newcomers to Canada whom Mr. Kenney calls “the most likely to succeed.”

“We should pick the best and brightest and seek to attract them in what is increasingly a global marketplace for human capital,” he said.

The program targets temporary foreign workers already in Canada. The program further targets non-Canadians who have graduated from universities and colleges here and people who have proven they can integrate into society and meet labour market needs.

Mr. Kenney has stated that Canada expects to admit 254,000 immigrants this year in total.

“We’re maintaining the highest per capita levels of total immigration in the developed world with, I think, the sole exception of New Zealand,” he said.

For further information on the fast track program for Skilled foreign workers, please contact Sumit Ahuja (Punjabi and Hindi speaking), Jennifer Lin and Nancy Chen (Manadarin and Cantonese speaking) and Ronak Yousefi (Farsi speaking) at the MacLean Family Law Group. As we reach the end of 2011, there appears to be no better time to discuss the opportunity to apply for Permanent residency in Canada as a foreign skilled worker.  Call us at 1-877-602-9900 or email sumit@bcfamilylaw.ca.

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DRAMATIC BC COMMON LAW AND MARRIAGE LIKE RELATIONSHIP SPOUSAL SUPPORT CHANGES

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011

"Are You Ready To Be A Parent And Pay Spousal Support?" asks MacLean

The BC family lawyers at the MacLean Family Law Group want unmarried persons, couples in short term, marriage like, or common law relationships and those who may simply be dating or having casual sexual relations to think very carefully about whether they want to be parents early on in a relationship. The stakes and consequences are now even bigger than before.

Besides the huge consequences and joys of raising a child after a short term relationship you may well face a spousal support obligation that may last until the child has graduated from high school or perhaps until at least the child is in Grade 1.

The new BC FAMILY LAW ACT legislation removes the 2 year time limit for being in a marriage like relationship that a couple had to have passed before spousal support liability was triggered. We now expect to see a flurry of arguments over whether a couple really was in a marriage like relationship or not given the short period of time they were together.

  • For example what if a couple moves in together for a month and are in a hot and heavy relationship that results in pregnancy and then they break up. Obviously, child support should be paid but is this a case where long term spousal support should be payable?
  • Conversely, we can’t have a spouse breaking up from a short term relationship upon learning of pregnancy simply to avoid any liability to pay spousal support to a parent who faces economic disadvantage from lost career and educational opportunities as a result of being a primary caregiver.
  • What should happen if both parent’s share equally the duty to raise a child.  This author thinks this is a case where no support should be payable. What do you think?
  • Finally, we expect to see more spousal support claims from spouse’s involvement with someone other than their traditional “spouse” as a result off a child being born from a serious affair.

I have highlighted the new legislation for you and I want you to think hard about the impact of this new legislation on your new relationship!

The legislation is expected to be law within the next 18 months if it passes.

Spouses and relationships between spouses
3 (1) A person is a spouse for the purposes of this Act if the person

(a) is married to another person, or
(b) has lived with another person in a marriage-like relationship, and
(i) has done so for a continuous period of at least 2 years, or
(ii) except in Parts 5 [Property Division] and 6 [Pension Division], has a child with the other person.

Call us toll free across BC to discuss your options at 1-877-602-9900 or meet with us at any of our 4 offices in Vancouver, Surrey, Kelowna or Fort St John BC.

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卑詩省遺囑更改法案和被排除遺囑兒女的遺產訴訟債權

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011

Vancouver Chinese Speaking Wills Variation Lawyers

Maclean 律師事務所的遺產訴訟律師為您提供以下的卑詩省遺囑糾紛的消息。最近卑詩省遺囑更改法案的糾紛案件 Hall v. Hall 將說明目前排除成人兒女繼承權的前提。 女立遺囑人留了遺產三十萬加幣給男配偶，而當配偶死後，女立遺囑人的遺產將轉給她兩個兒子中的其中一個。被排除的兒子將根據卑詩省遺囑更改法案第二段而控告。
 
卑詩省遺囑更改法案第二段：
假如法院發現立遺囑人的遺囑並沒有提供配偶或兒女足夠的維護和支持，法院可代表配偶或兒女指令公平的遺囑分配。
 
證據表示這位被排除的兒子曾經有侵犯他母親（立遺囑人）， 而有被定罪。此外，排除的兒子與母親分居了長久的時間。相反的，他的兄弟及其他家人與母親有良好的關係。最後，在立遺囑時，排除的兒子是一位成功的電子技師。立遺囑後還有證據顯示排除兒子有健康問題。
 
卑詩省最高法院駁回了這案件是因為：
“ Jean (立遺囑人) 不必對 Tony (排除的兒子) 有法律責任。 證據也無法顯示母親對兒子的道德責任而必須分他遺產。 我很滿意並尊重主審法官判決立遺囑人分配遺產的方式並無錯誤或有所不當， 而愈以尊重。”
 
MacLean 律師事務所有優秀的律師為您提供有關遺囑更改法的分析。因為更改過程期限短，請不要拖延跟我們聯絡。我們將幫助您了解到如何獲得公平的結果。
MacLean 律師事務所總共四所分公司， 分別在 Vancouver, Surrey, Fort St. John, 和 Kelowna 服務您
普通話服務請同 Nancy Chen 聯絡。 聯絡電話： （604） 608－6167 Ext.185 電郵： nchen@bcfamilylaw.ca
廣東話服務請同 Jennifer Lin聯絡。聯絡電話： （604）602－9000，電郵：jlin@bcfamilylaw.ca
 

 

 

 


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