Legal Resources

The Law Society of British Columbia of has hundreds of thousands of client files, including wills, taken into possession when law firms have been taken over and through other processes. If you have lost track of your lawyer and need to locate files, contact the Law Society.

This brochure tells you about advance care planning from the Aboriginal perspective, why it is important, and what to do with it.

Essential information you should know when preparing for your future. Learn your options for planning for your future financial, legal, health care, and personal care needs.

For people in BC who want to know what to do when a loved one dies. It covers preparing for the death of a loved one, what to do immediately after the death, making the funeral arrangements, and where to find support. The information is current to January 2017.

Practical information on how standard representation agreements can be used and how to prepare one. Learn about your rights and options for changing or ending one, and eight important reasons why someone may want to prepare one.

Explains adult guardianship laws make sure financial, legal, personal, and health care decisions can be made by, with, or for adults when needed. This includes if or when adults become mentally incapable.

This fact sheet is about your rights as an adult (age 19 or older) to give or refuse consent to health care. How is health care defined? What is required for informed consent? How is incapability to consent determined? When is consent not required? Who qualifies as a health care provider?

Practical information on what you can do to ensure your wishes around health care and personal care are respected. Learn about the two types of representation agreements, how to prepare an enhanced agreement, and how an advance directive can be used.

The Future Planning Tool is intended to promote long-term well-being for Canadians with disabilities by helping them and their families to accomplish their future planning goals, including financial planning, housing, relationships, and more.

Practical information on tools you can put in place now in case you can’t manage your financial and legal affairs in future. Learn about the different types of powers of attorney, how to prepare your enduring power of attorney, and your rights and options for changing or ending a power of attorney.