Legal Services

This service helps you get a customized referral to a lawyer, a notary, or a designated paralegal for a free 15 to 30-minute consultation. Booking fee may apply. If you would like further help from the legal professional, you can retain them at a rate you both agree to.

Offers free legal advice to low- and modest-income individuals by phone or videoconference. Their volunteer lawyers provide up to a half hour of advice at each appointment, with the possibility of more appointments. Legal issues include family, immigration, criminal, and civil law (such as debt, employment, welfare, and housing matters).

Connect with an articling clinician or a community lawyer who offers affordable legal services on a limited scope and fixed fee basis. Areas covered are family law, residential tenancy, employment and benefits, wills and estates, and civil disputes.

Online legal directory where you can find legal services in your community by searching for the location, area of practice, and language spoken to find all lawyers that meet those criteria. You can also find a specific lawyer or law firm if you know the name.

A free, accessible service that aims to include children’s views and voices in the family law process at an early stage. The service focuses on the child's comfort and agency while helping them understand legal concepts in a child-friendly way.

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.

Provides limited free family law services to self-identified women and gender diverse people in BC. Services are provided by family law advocates, staff lawyers, and law and social work students. Rise offers a range of client services, from information and summary advice to unbundled legal services.

This program provides free and confidential legal information, advocacy and referrals to qualifying residents in the Lower Mainland. The program includes family law and community law advocates.

Provides low-barrier wellness services to trans and gender-diverse people. Volunteer lawyers offer summary advice about legal issues you may have — family law, human rights, employment, immigration, etc. (But they can’t take on your case and act for you as your lawyer.) They can also notarize documents, for example for a name or gender change.

Free legal advice and representation to low-income people in the Kamloops and Kelowna area. They help with income assistance, limited family law, disability, tenancy, employment insurance, employment standards, Indigenous legal issues, human rights, small claims, CRT matters, judicial reviews, and other areas not covered by legal aid.