Legal Resources

Practical information on what to consider when making decisions for someone else. Learn about the steps you can take to protect adults from scams, financial exploitation, and abuse. Includes information about the duties you must follow if you have power of attorney, and tools designed to help you in your role.

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 manual describes the key legal issues related to residential care in British Columbia, along with the appropriate processes and available legal or administrative remedies.

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.

This page explains adult guardianship laws and how to 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 and includes answers to questions like: 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.

Estate planning can secure the financial well-being of your disabled child or grandchild. This comprehensive guide on financial planning for disabled people in BC covers the definitions of disability, tax benefits, government assistance, estate-planning options like trusts and RDSPs, decision-making support, and available resources.