The free Online Family Law Act Assistant helps you fill out the Provincial Court family law forms you need for your case. Answer a series of questions at your own pace and the service will complete your forms for you. Once finished, you can print and file them at your local court registry or submit them electronically. You will need a Basic BCeID account to get started. Alternatively, see below to read a description and download individual provincial family court forms.
If you're in an Early Resolution Registry, use this form to begin the early resolution process for your family law case. You'll write out information about yourself, the other party, and your family law issues. You must file a Notice to Resolve a Family Law Matter before you bring an Application About a Family Law Matter, unless you are applying for a protection order or priority parenting matter.
If you're in an Early Resolution Registry or Parenting Education Program Registry, you have to take a Parenting Education Program. There are some exceptions to having to take this course, such as if you have a medical condition. Use this form to ask for an exemption so you can appear before a judge at a family management conference.
If you don't resolve your matter through mediation (or another type of dispute resolution), use this form to apply to court for a court order about your family law matter. This can be for a new order, an order to change or cancel all or part of an existing final order, or an order to set aside or replace all or part of a written agreement. Include the schedule that relates to the order you're asking the judge to make.
Family law matters include:
• parenting arrangements, including parental responsibilities and parenting time
• child support
• contact with a child
• guardianship of a child
• spousal support
• companion animals
Note that if you have an interim (temporary) order about a family law matter that you need to change or cancel, you will need to complete a Request for Scheduling in Form 39.
Use this form to ask a judge to make an order about procedural issues to move your court case along or to address some specific concern.
Some examples include applying to transfer your court file to another registry, requiring a parentage test, or asking the court to change or skip (waive) a rule about serving documents or time limits. See Case management orders for more examples.
Use this form to ask a judge to make any of the same orders set out in Form 10 Application for a Case Management Order; however, you are asking that the orders be made without you giving notice to the other person or appearing in court. See Case management orders for examples.
Use this form to ask a judge to get, change, or end a protection order with or without notice to the other person. A protection order made under the Family Law Act is a court order that protects one or more family members from another family member if there is a risk of family violence. You can apply if you require protection for yourself and/or your child, or you can apply on behalf of another adult.
Use this form to ask a judge to get an order about a priority parenting matter (or to change or end the order). This would be about time-sensitive issues such as a child's emergency medical treatment or upcoming travel or activity.
Use this form to ask a judge for an order to stop the relocation of a child if there's already a written agreement or order about parenting arrangements or contact. If you do not have a written agreement or order about parenting arrangements, use Form 15 Application About a Priority Parenting Matter.
Use this form when you and the other party agree on the terms of a consent order about your family law matter. A judge can make a consent order without a court appearance.
You can use this form to start a provincial court file, or you can use it once a file has already started but you have since agreed on the terms of the Order. Note that you may need to file other documents depending on the nature of your consent order. For example, you will need to file a Financial Statement (Form 4) if your consent order includes child support. You will also need to fill out a Consent Order (Form 18).
Use this form to draft a consent order when you and the other party agree on the terms of your court order. Once the judge signs it, this becomes your consent order. See How to Write a Consent Order.
Use this form to ask a judge to enforce an agreement, order, or or a determination of a parenting coordinator that is filed with the court. An example is if the other parent doesn't show up to care for a child as agreed or ordered, or they refuse to let you spend time with the child. You can also use this form to enforce disclosure orders, conduct orders or for other orders made under the Family Law Act.
Use this form to ask a judge to make an order under the Family Maintenance Enforcement Act about the enforcement of an order about child support or spousal support. This form is usually used once enforcement actions have already been started and may be used to challenge enforcement actions taken outside the court by the BC Family Maintenance Agency. You should contact BC Family Maintenance Agency before preparing this form to see if they can help. You may be able to reach an agreement without going to court. Visit www.bcfma.ca or call 1-800-663-3455
Use this Provincial Court form to tell the judge about your income, expenses, assets, and debts.
A Form 4 must be filed if you are applying for child support and you have a shared parenting arrangement, since both parties' incomes are needed to calculate the correct amount. It must also be filed in all cases when you apply for or respond to an application for spousal support, or respond to an application for child support.
See Complete a Provincial Court Financial Statement (Form 4) for information on how to fill out this form and what to do with it.
Use this form to create a document that states facts that you want to present to the court when you apply for an order (for example, for support) and that you swear under oath or affirm to be true. An affidavit should be divided into numbered paragraphs and not be longer than 25 pages, including exhibits, unless you have permission from the court to have a longer affidavit. A lawyer, notary public, or commissioner for taking affidavits will need to witness your signature. See how to write an affidavit.
Use this form to prove you've served documents (whether it's by ordinary service or personal service). The person who serves the documents fills out the form. It doesn't need to be sworn or affirmed.
Use this form to prove to the court that the following documents have been personally served by an adult who is not a party:
Once you're granted a protection order, this form is used to prove in court that it has been personally delivered, by someone other than the parties involved, to the person they're meant for, according to the rules of court. If the other party live in BC, the court will arrange serving it for you.
Once you're granted a protection order in court, use this form to ask the court to arrange to serve (deliver) the order on the other party to avoid putting anyone at risk.
Sometimes after starting the court process there can be a pause in your case about a family law matter and you want to start it up again. If the last step taken was over 1 year ago, you must complete a Notice of Intention to Proceed and give a copy to each party before taking any further steps. You will then participate in a family management conference.
You must file the trial readiness statement at the court registry where the case is located. It must be filed and served at least 7 days before the date of the trial preparation conference if a trial preparation conference is scheduled, or as ordered by the court.
Use this form to ask the court to schedule an appearance before a judge as previously ordered or directed or a family management conference. Examples of situations where you may need to file a Request for Scheduling include:
Use this form when filing an affidavit or financial statement by email or through Court Services Online, when available. It confirms that what you're filing is a scan of the original affidavit that has your handwritten signature.
Use this form as a cover page when filing Provincial Court documents by fax.
Use this special affidavit to apply to become the guardian of a child if you're a parent who doesn't have guardianship or a non-parent (relative or non-relative) who wants to become the child's guardian. An affidavit is a written statement that contains facts that you swear or affirm to be true to support your case. See How can you become a guardian? for more information about how to apply for guardianship.
Use this form to give the court permission to carry out the necessary Ministry of Children and Family Development records check on you when you apply for guardianship of a child. See How can you become a guardian? for more information.
Use this form to give the court permission to carry out the necessary Protection Order Registry check on you when you apply for guardianship of a child. See How can you become a guardian? for more information.
Use this form when you're filing a written agreement so that you are able to enforce your agreement in provincial court. Note, that it must have provisions relating to children, or support in order to file it for the purposes of enforcement.
Use this form when you're filing a parenting coordinator's determination.
Use this form when you're filing a court order in Provincial Court, such as an order made in Supreme Court or an order from another province.