Legal Services Society Family Law in BC Website

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Legal Services SocietyFamily Law in BC Website

• www.familylaw.lss.bc.ca

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Usage

• Over 300 visits/day
• Videos on the site are viewed more than 1,700
  times per month
• About 60 of visitors are seeking legal
  information and self-help materials, 40 are
  family service professionals helping someone else

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Content of Family Law in BC site

• Over 1,000 pages of legal information,
  including 36 self help guides and more than 22
  fact sheets

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New features added

• a text resizer (enlarge or reduce text size)
• short video and audio clips
• whats new in family law
• a definitions page
• relevant legislation links
• publications by language
• frequently asked questions

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Videos

• 2 short clips available now, 15 more to come
• 2 short films available on family law
  fictionalized stories of a couple disputing child
  support in Provincial Court, and in the Supreme
  Court of BC

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Who can help?

• The first hurdle is finding the information
  the next is knowing how to use it.

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Question 1

• I want to apply for a divorce on my own my
  ex doesnt want to have to do anything. My
  friend told me that I have to write something
  called a Plaintiffs Affidavit. Where do I find
  that and is that how I would get started?

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Question 2

• My daughter is refusing to let me see my
  granddaughter. What is the procedure for me to
  get a court order for access?

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Question 3

• I have been served with an Application to
  Obtain an Order for me to pay child support and
  for my girlfriend to have sole custody and
  guardianship of our child. I am in agreement
  with paying her child support, but I dont agree
  with her having sole custody and guardianship.
  How can I let the court know this?

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Question 4

• My father told me that I could claim for undue
  hardship in my Supreme Court Financial Statement.
  What does that mean?

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Question 5

• I need to serve documents on my estranged
  wife. I dont want to see her. Who can serve
  documents for me?

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For further information contact

• Kim Shelley
• Legal Information Outreach Worker
• Victoria Regional Centre
• kim.shelley_at_lss.bc.ca
• January, 2008