Finding a maximal isotropic subspace

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I have the following question:

Let $V$ be a finite dimensional complex vector space. For a given bilinear form $(,): V \times V \rightarrow \mathbb{C}$, a subspace $W$ of $V$ is called isotropic with respect to $(,)$ if $(w,w) =0$ for all $w\in W$.

My questions are that:

(1). Is it true that the dimension is invariant? (I mean, it is a constant for all isotropic subspaces).

(2). How can we describe this dimension in terms of any information of $(,)$?

(3). How can we find a maximal isotropic subspace? Thanks very much!