Family Law
The family lawyers at Harper Grey LLP focus on providing solutions that deliver effective results in an economically beneficial manner.
We ensure that you have the right information to make a well-informed choice. When we presenting your options, we will help you explore the potential outcomes, ranging from how they will affect your financial situation 20 years from now to how they might affect your relationship with your children and other family members.
We believe that family law solutions are more effective, functional, and rewarding when they are chosen by you, rather than chosen by your lawyer.
Our family law services range from matrimonial disputes involving complex tax planning, trust arrangements and claims against business interests, to representing our clients in mediations, and facilitating discussions and assisting you in resolving disputes cooperatively. We also provide support to individuals who wish to represent their own interests. And should the need arise, we have the benefit of many years of experience acting for clients in litigation.
Our family lawyers provide a high level of personal service and availability for our clients. We recognize that timely access and frank discussions with your lawyer are an integral part of moving forward with your life.
We help clients with family law issues such as:
- Marriage agreements
- Cohabitation agreements
- Separation agreements
- Divorce orders
- Wealth preservation, including business valuation issues
- Mediation
- Collaborative law
- Child custody and access
- Litigation related to division of assets
Contact person for our family law services:
For more information, please contact the chair of the family law group, Maureen Lundell. She can be reached at 604.895.2827 or via email.
Representative Client Work
- Assisting a businessman with a considerable portfolio of commercial properties to successfully retain control and ownership of those properties
- Acting as mediators, assisting a couple to swiftly clarify and document agreements reached and negotiate a resolution to outstanding issues at minimum cost; this was quickly approved by their independent legal counsel and the parties were able to maintain their privacy and their amicable relationship for the benefit of their children.
Spotlight
Recent changes include the introduction of Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines. These guidelines are not law and are designed to be advisory only, with the goal of bringing more predictability to determining spousal support under the Act.
As of May 1, 2006, new Child Support Guidelines came into effect, and will increase payment amounts for BC Child Support payments.
