Legal Resources

This 16-page booklet is for community leaders, teachers, students, people in social service or health care roles, and others who want to help their communities learn more about human trafficking.

Explains mediation, a process for resolving disputes and an alternative to going to court. It covers when to mediate, what mediators do, choosing a mediator, lawyers and mediation, the process, after mediation, and mediation as legal counsel.

Explains that when parents separate, they must work out the details of how their children will be cared for. This includes decisions about guardianship, parenting arrangements, and contact. Learn about these parenting after separation issues and the laws that apply. You can also find answers to some common questions.

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.

Online step-by-step guide on how to apply for an order to waive fees. This lets you begin or respond to a court application without paying the fees. Includes links to blank forms.

This describes BC’s network of care, where family and community members provide kinship care, and individuals or families foster children and youth. The network of care also includes community social service agencies who provide care for children and youth with complex needs in a specialized environment.

If you or someone you know is experiencing family violence, you have options. Help is available from the police, community workers, and the courts. Learn the steps you can take.

Mediation is an alternative dispute resolution process that is facilitated by a neutral third party, a mediator. It can help resolve your family disputes including separation or divorce, without needing to go to court.

Eight-minute video explains what a priority parenting matter is in BC Provincial Court. This includes health-related treatments and applications for passports, if delay will result in risk to a child; travel; change in a child’s residence; orders to prevent removal of a child; orders about wrongful removal of a child; and more.