(LPSA)Fill out the court forms

Fill out the court forms

You'll need

This guide includes links to online blank forms and instructions for filling them out. You can also get free printed forms from the Family Court registry in the town or city where you live.

If you use the online forms, you can fill out the forms online or print them and fill them out by hand (print legibly using dark-coloured ink).

If you download the forms from this site, you'll have to make several copies of everything. If you use forms from the registry, the copies you need are already included in some of the forms booklets.

On these forms, you're called the applicant. The other person (the law calls them the other party) is called the respondent.

If you're applying to set aside the parts of the agreement about support payments, you have to show that either your or the other person's financial situation has changed since you made your agreement. The court will need evidence of this.

If you don't have details of the other person's finances, you can get them from the Financial Statement they give you. Your agreement might have information about what your and the other person's financial situation was at the time the agreement was signed. You'll need this information if you go to trial.

If you need help with the forms, see Where can you get help with filling out court forms?

Complete a Financial Statement (Form 4)

See Complete a Provincial Court Financial Statement (Form 4) to figure out if you have to file one (and for help filling it out if you need to).

Swear or affirm the Financial Statement

Your next step is to swear or affirm that what you've written in the Financial Statement (Form 4) is true. You have to do this in front of a:

  • lawyer,
  • notary public,
  • government agent, or
  • commissioner of oaths.

Some staff at the Family Court registry are commissioners of oaths and might provide this service for free. Bring picture identification with you, such as a:

  • BCID card,
  • BC Services card,
  • driver's licence, or
  • passport.
Updated on 13 April 2021