Legal Resources

This chapter provides an overview of the ways that criminal law, tort law, and the Family Law Act can address issues of family violence, including through peace bonds and protection orders. It also takes a brief look at some child protection issues.

This chapter provides an overview of the range of family relationships, and examines how the law impacts the people in these relationships. Also provides information about the claims a child’s caregivers and extended family members can make.

This chapter provides an overview of family law agreements and covers cohabitation agreements, marriage agreements, and separation agreements in more detail, with additional information about enforcing and changing agreements.

This chapter provides an overview of the law on the care of children after separation, looking at where the children will live, how parenting decisions will be made, and how often each person will see the children in more detail.

This chapter provides an overview of child support and child support orders, and includes information about exceptions to the Federal Child Support Guidelines, how to make changes to child support, and how to deal with arrears of child support.

Written in plain language, with rollover definitions for legal words and phrases, this wikibook provides practical, in-depth coverage of family law and divorce law in British Columbia.

A sign language and captioned video on sexual assault reporting options in BC created as part of Disability Alliance BC’s Sexual Assault Reporting Options: Increasing Access for Women with Disabilities project. Generously funded by the Ministry of Public Safety.

This help sheet will explain who to talk to — or who to report to — if you have been sexually assaulted. Generously funded by the Ministry of Public Safety.

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.

Describes how to spot types of abuse and family violence in different harmful or controlling behaviours (whether it’s happening to you or someone you know).