What's new on the Family Law website

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The Family Law in British Columbia website has added the following new materials.

May 2012

• One new FAQ:
  • We are applying for a joint divorce. Do we have to swear or affirm the Affidavit — Desk Order Divorce (Form F38) together or could we each fill out our own affidavit and have them sworn separately?
• One new What's new in family law item:
  • Notice to Mediate (Family) Pilot Program expands across BC
• Two revised fact sheets:
  • Mediation
  • Making mediation happen in a BC family law case (formerly Mediation for family law cases in Duncan, Nanaimo, New Westminster, Vancouver, and Victoria Supreme Courts)

April 2012

• Seven new publications:
  • Is Your Client Safe? A Lawyer's Guide to Relationship Violence
  • Encouraging Disclosure
  • Relationship Violence Client Resources
  • Relationship Violence Legal Resources
  • Safety Planning for You and Your Staff
  • Safety Planning for Your Client
  • Sponsorship Breakdown (in simplified Chinese)
• Four revised publications
• Surviving Relationship Violence and Abuse
• Sponsorship Breakdown (in traditional Chinese, Punjabi, and Spanish)
• One new What's new in family law item:

  • Order in Council No. 192, dated April 3, 2012 and effective April 25, 2012, revises the Supreme Court Family Rules and several of the forms

March 2012

• One new PDF self-help guide:
  • "How to personally serve documents for a BC (Canada) Supreme Court family law process" (in Spanish)
• Two new PDF self-help guides:
  • "How to personally serve documents for a BC (Canada) Supreme Court family law process" (in traditional Chinese and French)

February 2012

• A new link to a series of blog entries about the new Family Law Act on the ELAN blog added to all pages (on the right, under "Changes coming").

January 2012

• Three new publications:
  • Abuse in Same-Sex Relationships
  • Transgender People and Relationship Abuse
  • Women Abused by Their Partners (#11 in the Live Safe — End Abuse fact sheet series)
• One new link to the JusticeBC website added to the Legal help & lawyers, Legal research, and Legal system & courts sections of our Links page.

November 2011

• One new What's new in family law item:

  • Federal Child Support Guidelines updated effective December 31, 2011

• One new What's new in family law item:
  • New Family Law Act receives Royal Assent and is now law
• Changed names for two legal issues:
  • Abuse becomes Abuse & family violence
  • Youth becomes Children & teens
• An enhanced publications area with two new publication categories:
  • Legal help & lawyers
  • Legal system & courts
• Two new categories of fact sheets (Legal help & lawyers and Legal system & courts)
• Enhanced mouse-over definitions and more definition links throughout the site
• One new What's new in family law item:
  • New Family Law Act introduced in the legislature