Legal Resources

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.

Family law deals with legal issues that impact families. Family breakups, divorce, marriage, adoption, and family violence all fall within this area of law. Learn the basics of family law.

Explains how to get support if one person lives outside BC. It explains what you need to do to get a support order, and how to change an existing support order, including tips about starting an application and sending your application.

Step-by-step question and answer guide to find what forms you need to get or change a child and/or spousal support order under ISO or the Divorce Act. The PDF forms you are then linked to are based on answers about your situation. It also links to guides to help you fill out each form, and includes where you can get help if no forms are applicable.

Answers some of the common questions asked by children and teens about their family law rights, including whether a young person can get child support, medical care, guardianship over younger siblings, and a say in which parent they want to live with.

If your family law case is in the Kamloops Provincial (Family) Court, a judge may offer you the option of an informal trial before a trial is scheduled. You and the other person must agree to have this informal trial, which is less formal and more flexible. It links to PDFs about informal trials, the trial journey, FAQs, and how to prepare.

Under the Federal Child Support Guidelines, parents need to provide complete and up-to-date income information to ensure a fair amount of child support. Includes who needs to provide income information when, what income information they need to provide, and what happens when it is not provided.

Describes what to expect when you go to court for a conference, Chambers hearing, or trial. Includes how to prepare for court, and tips on what you can do and how you should act to make your case go smoothly.

This guidebook can help you learn about how to start or respond to a family law proceeding in the BC Supreme Court.

This guidebook will help you learn about how to do legal research for a family law matter.