Legal Services

Legal Help BC offers personalized help from trained navigators (Ask a Human). It offers legal information and referrals, not legal advice, helping people address their legal issues. Live help is available on weekdays from 11am to 2pm. Offline inquiries receive a response the next business day.

Free and confidential legal advocacy services including information and referrals, summary advice and support, and full representation in many legal matters including housing (on and off reserve), income/social assistance, debt, police accountability, human rights, disability, Indigenous legal issues, elder issues, child protection, and much more.

An online tool to help you find a legal advocate and anti-poverty organizations that can help with issues related to family law, debt, welfare, housing, disability, human rights, employment and workers’ rights. The database includes women's shelters, settlement programs, and other community services. You can search by areas of advocacy or city.

Helps you work out your next steps if you’re pre-separated or recently separated by giving you key information as the first step towards a non-adversarial process in settling your family law matters. They don’t provide legal advice, but for a small fee offer coaching, help filling out court forms & accompany you to lawyer appointments or court.

This free service from Legal Aid BC helps survivors of family violence with both legal and non-legal issues. You’ll get support from a lawyer and an advocate who will assist you throughout your family law case and help you manage any related problems.

Family support workers can help with information and assistance filling in court forms, as well as support for custody disputes and family violence. Social workers can also attend case conferences, advocate with MCFD, and assist with preparation for court and meeting with lawyers.

Victim services provides support with filing a police report, court accompaniment, assistance talking to Crown Counsel, and support with Victim Impact Statements.

Court outreach connects women with community partner agencies including legal services, housing options, government services, and social services. Also includes family justice court support.

Legal Booth is a referral based program for SARA clients that provides 30 minutes of legal advice in family law. Legal Booth may also be able to help with completing legal documents for eligible clients.

This service provides support and referrals to people in BC whose intimate images have been shared (or threatened to be shared) without their consent. They can contact online platforms and/or perpetrators to request the removal of images, and help make a claim with the Civil Resolution Tribunal (CRT) for an order to get the images removed.