Info pages | Family Law in BC

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Aboriginal & First Nations families

Are there any different family laws for Aboriginal people?

Indigenous Child and Family Service Agencies

Abuse & child protection

Family & partner abuse

If your spouse is harassing you through the courts

Safety planning for you and your family

Keeping kids safe when you have a protection order

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Child protection

Do you need any legal documents to leave Canada with your children?

Parents' responsibilities

Child protection process

Get legal help

Indigenous Child and Family Service Agencies

Your privacy

Making a complaint against the ministry

Staying out of court

Making agreements for your child's care

Child protection mediation

Court process

Child protection court orders

Parenting help

Coping with the process

Benefits for caregivers raising children

Safety planning for you and your family

Keeping kids safe when you have a protection order

What should you take if you leave your spouse?

Criminal or family law orders for protection

Family law protection orders

What is abuse?

Keeping kids safe when you have a protection order

Safety plan

Keeping kids safe when you have a protection order

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Support & finances

Debt & debt division

Dealing with debts after you separate

Dividing property and debts after you separate

Property & property division

Dividing property and debts after you separate

Child support

Child support

When does child support end?

Early Resolution Registries

If you're struggling to pay support

Can you reduce or cancel child support arrears?

Can you retroactively reduce child support payments?

Can you retroactively increase child support payments?

What is the Child Support Recalculation Service?

What is financial disclosure?

Self-employed parents and child support

Pension & benefits division

Dividing pensions and other benefits after you separate

Protecting yourself financially after you separate

Spousal support

BC Family Maintenance Agency

Getting your driver's licence back if BCFMA issues a cancellation

Can you sue your parents for support?

BC Family Maintenance Agency

Early Resolution Registries

Spousal support

Early Resolution Registries

If you're struggling to pay support

Support payments

If you're struggling to pay support

Legal processes & forms

When can you change an order?

Court orders

When can you change an order?

Can you appeal an order?

Final and interim court orders

Tips for writing Supreme Court orders

If the other person doesn't respond to your application for an order

Tips for writing Provincial Court orders

Get a final family order in Supreme Court if you both agree

Can you change a support order made in BC if one of you doesn't live here?

Can you change a support order made outside BC?

Can you enforce a support order made in BC if one of you doesn't live here?

Can you enforce a support order made outside BC?

Early Resolution Registries

Case management orders

Get an order about priority parenting matters

Court forms

Who can swear an affidavit?

What to include in an affidavit or bring to court

Where can you get help with filling out court forms?

Early Resolution Registries

Tips for organizing your court documents

Court processes

Coping with the court process

Divorce

Family management conferences in Provincial Court

Can you take a support person to Provincial Court?

Making mediation happen in a family law case in Supreme Court

Preparing to attend a Supreme Court trial

Preparing to attend a Provincial Court trial

File your agreement in Provincial Court

File your agreement in Supreme Court

What happens at a Provincial Court family law trial?

What is discovery?

What is evidence and how do you present it in Supreme Court?

Using documents as evidence in Supreme Court

Using expert opinion as evidence in Supreme Court

Using witnesses to give evidence in Supreme Court

Making an offer to settle

Tips for your Supreme Court trial

What happens at a Supreme Court family law trial?

Sample questions to ask when cross-examining witnesses at a Supreme Court trial

Sample questions to ask your own witnesses at a Supreme Court trial

Interjurisdictional support orders

What happens in a Supreme Court Chambers hearing?

Early Resolution Registries

Provincial Court remote proceedings

Informal trials - Kamloops court registry

Family Settlement Conferences in Provincial Court

Court Notices

Application

Family Management Conference

Do you need to go to Provincial (Family) Court or Supreme Court?

Costs and expenses

Legal agreements

Divorce

How do you change an agreement?

Making an agreement after you separate

Making an agreement when you live together

Researching family law cases

Legislation

Researching family law cases

Which laws can you use for your family law issue?

Legal advice & legal aid

Working well with a family law lawyer

What is independent legal advice?

Who can help you reach an agreement?

Getting help from an advocate

Getting help from the Representative for Children and Youth

Where can you get help with your other (non-family) legal problems?

Tips about getting legal help

What is legal aid?

Preparing to meet with a family law lawyer

How do you write an affidavit?

What can you expect your lawyer to do?

Common questions about the Supreme Court PDF forms

Can your spouse use your settlement talks against you in court?

Provincial Court proceedings

How to set up a Basic BCeID account

Court documents

Tips for organizing your court documents

Parenting Education Program registries

Preparing a script for a family management conference

Marriage and common-law

Common-law relationships

Making an agreement after you separate

Making an agreement when you live together

What happens if your common-law partner dies?

What you need to know before you move in with someone

Cohabitation agreements

Making an agreement after you separate

Parenting

Adoption

Parenting after separation

Do you need any legal documents to leave Canada with your children?

Parenting coordinators

Guardianship: Parenting time and parental responsibilities

Parenting apart

Early Resolution Registries

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Moving or travelling after separation

Do you need any legal documents to leave Canada with your children?

Can you move — with or without your children?

Early Resolution Registries

Family management conferences in Provincial Court

Child rights

Do children have a right to time with their grandparents?

If your parents separate, can you decide who you want to live with?

Best interests of the child

Contact: Spending time with a child

Do you need your parents' permission to get medical care?

Why see a lawyer about your plan of care prepared for the court?

How to have your voice heard

Grandparents and relatives as guardians

Do children have a right to time with their grandparents?

Guardianship

Do children have a right to time with their grandparents?

How can you become a child's guardian?

Guardianship: Parenting time and parental responsibilities

Can you be a guardian of your younger siblings?

Early Resolution Registries

Parenting coordinators

Parenting agreements

Parenting coordinators

Making an agreement after you separate

Guardianship: Parenting time and parental responsibilities

What happens if you don't follow a parenting or support agreement or order?

Early Resolution Registries

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Who is a parent?

What will happen if you die or can't take care of your child?

Parenting time

Contact: Spending time with a child

Guardianship: Parenting time and parental responsibilities

Early Resolution Registries

Parenting apart

Parenting After Separation course

Decision-making responsibility and parenting time

Step-parents' rights and responsibilities

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Separation & divorce

Divorce

Making an agreement after you separate

If you're struggling to pay support

How to get a divorce

Divorce

Getting a divorce if your home country doesn't recognize your same-sex marriage

What is the Online Divorce Assistant?

Family management conferences in Provincial Court

Researching family law cases

Mediation

Judicial Case Conferences in Supreme Court

Separation

Proving you're separated if you and your spouse still live together

Getting a divorce if your home country doesn't recognize your same-sex marriage

Making mediation happen in a family law case in Supreme Court

Parenting apart

Parenting After Separation course

Getting a copy of your marriage certificate

Marriages, divorces, and annulments inside and outside Canada

Divorce forms & papers

What is the Online Divorce Assistant?

What happens if the other person doesn't follow an agreement?

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