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2025
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- Aug 11, 2025 Child Support Obligations for Stepparents Aug 11, 2025
- Aug 11, 2025 Fairness in Cross-Examination: Understanding the Rule in Browne v Dunn Aug 11, 2025
- May 9, 2025 Time Limits in BC Family Law Matters May 9, 2025
- Feb 28, 2025 Serving Supreme Court Documents in Family Law Matters, Even if the Opposing Party Cannot Be Found Feb 28, 2025
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2024
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- Dec 17, 2024 Intervention: Ahluwalia v. Ahluwalia Dec 17, 2024
- Dec 3, 2024 Protection Orders in BC and the Urgent Need for a Specialized Process and Coordinated Reform Dec 3, 2024
- Oct 29, 2024 Building Inclusive and Accessible Family Justice: Practical Approaches to Innovate Family Law Systems in BC’s Rural and Remote Communities Oct 29, 2024
- Oct 2, 2024 Annual Report 2023-2024 Oct 2, 2024
- Aug 21, 2024 How do I support a client’s adjournment application? Aug 21, 2024
- Aug 20, 2024 Starting a family court file in the Supreme Court of BC Aug 20, 2024
- Jul 12, 2024 How Do I Organize Information for My Family Law Case? Jul 12, 2024
- Jun 26, 2024 Preparing Affidavit Evidence for BC Provincial Court Jun 26, 2024
- May 27, 2024 Writing Affidavits for Protection Orders May 27, 2024
- May 7, 2024 Joint submission from West Coast LEAF and Rise in response to the Ministry of Attorney General’s Discussion Paper on Care of and Time with Children & Protection from Family Violence. May 7, 2024
- Apr 22, 2024 Joint Submission of West Coast LEAF and Rise in Response to the BC Law Institute’s Consultation Paper on Parentage Apr 22, 2024
- Apr 15, 2024 When You Weren’t Expecting: A Legal Guide for People with Unexpected Pregnancies Apr 15, 2024
- Mar 4, 2024 Important Court of Appeal Decision! Mar 4, 2024
- Feb 23, 2024 Improving Access to Justice through Safeguards in Parenting Assessments Feb 23, 2024
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2023
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- Oct 31, 2023 Annual Report 2022-2023 Oct 31, 2023
- Oct 31, 2023 Joint submission to the Department of Justice Oct 31, 2023
- Jun 21, 2023 Interim Distribution of Property Jun 21, 2023
- Apr 20, 2023 Changing Locks When You Are A Renter in BC Apr 20, 2023
- Mar 20, 2023 Seeking a Peace Bond: A guide Mar 20, 2023
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2022
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- Nov 24, 2022 Joint statement on the release of the national action plan to end gender-based violence. Nov 24, 2022
- Oct 31, 2022 Annual Report 2022 Oct 31, 2022
- Oct 18, 2022 Creating Safety in BC Courts: Key Challenges and Recommendations Oct 18, 2022
- Sep 28, 2022 How do I Choose A Family Lawyer? Sep 28, 2022
- Jan 31, 2022 Decolonizing family law through trauma-informed practices Jan 31, 2022
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2021
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- Oct 29, 2021 Annual Report 2021 Oct 29, 2021
- May 31, 2021 Are we ready to change? May 31, 2021
- Mar 31, 2021 Section 211 toolkit Mar 31, 2021
- Jan 22, 2021 Why can’t everyone just get along? Jan 22, 2021
- Jan 19, 2021 Joint submission to British Columbia Law Institute Jan 19, 2021
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2020
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- Dec 28, 2020 Understanding Section 211 reports Dec 28, 2020
- Oct 30, 2020 Annual Report 2020 Oct 30, 2020
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2019
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- Oct 25, 2019 Annual Report 2019 Oct 25, 2019
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2018
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- Oct 19, 2018 Annual Report 2018 Oct 19, 2018
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2017
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- Sep 22, 2017 Annual Report 2017 Sep 22, 2017
Child Support Obligations for Stepparents
Child Support Obligations for Stepparents is a guide designed for parents, stepparents, or anyone seeking more information. It is designed to help you understand child support responsibilities for stepparents in British Columbia.
Fairness in Cross-Examination: Understanding the Rule in Browne v Dunn
Fairness in Cross-Examination: Understanding the Rule in Browne v Dunn is a guide designed for clients as well as family law advocates and support workers assisting self-represented litigants. This guide reviews the rule in Browne v Dunn and how it applies in a family law trial.
Serving Supreme Court Documents in Family Law Matters, Even if the Opposing Party Cannot Be Found
Serving Supreme Court Documents in Family Law Matters, Even if the Opposing Party Cannot Be Found is a guide designed for family law advocates and support workers, who are assisting or plan to assist clients with serving Supreme Court documents.
How do I support a client’s adjournment application?
How do I support a client’s adjournment application is a guide designed for advocates who plan to assist clients with last-minute adjournments related to their family law matters.
Starting a family court file in the Supreme Court of BC
Starting a family court file with the Supreme Court of British Columbia is a guide to help family law advocates and support workers support their clients to file and serve a Notice of Family Claim (NOFC)
How Do I Organize Information for My Family Law Case?
How do I organize information for my family law case is a guide to help people organize and track information related to their family law matter.
Writing Affidavits for Protection Orders
This guide covers protection order basics and answers common questions clients may have while applying for protections orders. This guide does not contain legal advice and we hope is used in combination with legal advice.
When You Weren’t Expecting: A Legal Guide for People with Unexpected Pregnancies
The goal of this guide is to provide legal information for people who are unexpectedly pregnant outside of a long-term relationship. This guide provides legal information only and is not legal advice.
Joint submission to the Department of Justice
Rise Women’s Legal Centre and West Coast LEAF have made a joint submission to the Department of Justice as it considers establishing a new Criminal Code offence for coercive control in the context of intimate relationships.
Interim Distribution of Property
This guide was created to help people understand when they might be able to access family property to help cover the costs of their legal proceedings.
