Legal Resources

Safety plans can be an important part of leaving an abusive relationship. Use the interactive planning guide, or print out the PDF to create a personalized plan. Also includes plans for safety plans during pregnancy, relationships with children or pets, and safety plans for transwomen.

Helps you understand and minimize the risks of using AI for obtaining legal information, legal advice, and legal drafting. This guide is written for individuals representing themselves, as well as family law advocates and support workers assisting them.

Step-by-step guides to help you figure out what to do if you’re the respondent in a family law case and you’ve been served with a court form from the BC Supreme Court. Also includes responding to a Notice of Family Claim for a divorce order.

Formerly part of the Parenting After Separation course, this guide book helps separating couples divide their finances. Includes child and spousal support sections, as well as separating debt, and communication strategies.

This page includes information about which court you can go to get a court order.

Step-by-step guides to help you figure out what to do if you’re the respondent in a family law case and you’ve been served with a court form in Provincial Court.

During a separation, you may need to ask the courts for exclusive occupancy of the family home while your issues are being settled. Find out how can apply and how, as well as how long exclusive occupancy orders last and whether you will need to pay the full costs of the home on your own.

This resource explains ways that you may be able to hire a lawyer for your family law case in a way that meets your needs and budget.

The Provincial Court handles many types of family matters including parenting arrangements, spousal and child support and their enforcement, child protection, adult guardianship (protection of abused or neglected adults), and child abduction by a parent.

Helps you fill out forms for family orders in Provincial Court. These include protection orders, and orders for parenting arrangements, child support, contact with a child, guardianship, and spousal support. You can file the printed-out forms at a court registry, or e-file from this website.