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Non-Governmental Agencies & Organizations
The following links and contact information will direct you to a host of different organizations involved in family law and providing legal information and assistance to people involved in family law disputes.
- Lawyers' Organizations
- Law Libraries
- Public Non-Profit Organizations
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Lawyers' Organizations
Professional and Regulatory Bodies
Pro Bono Organizations and Services
Related resources are listed in the Public Resources segment below.
Legal Information Sources and Services
Related resources are listed in the Public Resources segment below.
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Law Libraries
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Public Resources
On-Line Resources
Legal Information and Assistance
- Access to Justice Network: ACJNet tries to make Canadian law accessible to all, and their site contains an extensive collection of links, articles and information about Canadian law.
- BC Mediator Roster: This organization maintains a list of qualified mediators in the province to help you find a mediator in your neighbourhood.
- Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice: this organization is primarily concerned with issues involving the administration of justice in Canada and serves as an umbrella organization for groups dealing with such issues across the country.
- CanLII: The Canadian Legal Information Institute website is run by the Federation of Law Societies of Canada and offers a comprehensive collection of links to the courts, laws and regulations for the Canada and all provinces, including British Columbia.
- Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia: while the CLE's primary purpose is to provide on-going legal training for lawyers in BC, their website contains some extremely helpful information and links which are helpful to the non-lawyer.
- Court Tips for Parents, Law Courts Education Society: this website offers a guide to the process for making interim applications in the BC Supreme Court and includes a helpful series of instructional videos.
- Dial-a-Law: Dial-a-Law is run by the Canadian Bar Association's BC branch and offers both connections to lawyers who practice in specific areas of law as well as pre-recorded discussions about legal common problems; this site contains the text of these discussions.
- Law Centre, University of Victoria Faculty of Law: this website offers handy, easy to understand information about common legal problems, including many family law issues.
- Law Students' Legal Advice Program, UBC Faculty of Law: LSLAP offers free legal information and representation by UBC law students; this website contains contact information as well as the text of their student manual.
- Legal Services Society Electronic Law Library: LSS provides legal aid in British Columbia, and this site contains and extremely broad collection of links and legal resources within the province.
- Peoples' Law School
: like the folks at ACJNet, the Peoples' Law School tries to make legal information available to the public in plain English and in a variety of other languages.
- Marylin Raisch's International Family Law Links: a very helpful website with links to most major international agreements and treaties dealing with family law and issues like international child abduction.
Social Resources
- The Red Book Online: for years the Red Book has been the bible of people involved in community and social services in the Lower Mainland as the most complete directory of community, social and government agencies and organizations, including non-profit agencies, self-help groups, advocacy groups and so forth. If you don't know where to look for what you want, look here first.
- Divorce Magazine: this is a commercial web magazine that offers a lot of articles dealing with family law, from the basics of divorce to the basics of mediation.
- Alternatives to Marriage Project: an interesting American organization offering a broad array of information for unmarried couples.
Parenting Resources
- Information Children, Simon Fraser University: this a non-profit organization that provides services for parents and children going through a divorce, including some extremely helpful parenting workshops for divorcing or separating parents; this website offers information about their program.
- Shared Parenting Information Group: a UK resource with a wide range of links and academic materials based on the principle that children should spend as much time with both parents as possible.
- Family Pride Canada: a broad resource for same-sex families, with tons of links for related groups and services.
Off-Line Resources
Mediation & Conflict Resolution
- Family Justice Centres
- Reach through Enquiry BC:
Lower Mainland: 604-660-2421
Victoria: 250-387-6121
Rest of BC: 800-663-7867
- UBC's CoRe Clinic
- UBC Faculty of Law, Annex 2
1822 East Mall
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Y1
Telephone: 604-827-5024
Fax: 604-822-0308
Email: coreclinic@hotmail.com
Web: www.disputeresolution.ubc.ca/core01.htm
Lesbian and Gay Legal Help
- Pride Line
- Lower Mainland: 604-684-6869
Outside the Lower Mainland: 800-566-1170
Adoption
- Vancouver
- Adoptive Families Association of BC: 604-588-7300
Adoption Support: 604-687-3114
Transition Houses
- Vancouver
- Kate Booth House: 604-872-7774
Munroe House: 604-734-5722
- North Vancouver
- Emily Murphy House: 604-987-3374
- Burnanby
- Margaret Dixon House: 604-987-3454
- Port Coquitlam and Coquitlam
- Coquitlam Women's Transition House: 604-464-2020, after hours 931-5996
- Surrey and Langley
- Ishtar Transition House: 604-530-9442
Counselling and Crisis Services
- Children
- HelpLine for Children: 604-310-1234
- Crisis Centres
- Vancouver, Burnaby, North Vancouver, West Vancouver: 604-827-3311
Richmond, Delta: 604-279-7070
Coquitlam, Maple Ridge, New Westminster, Port Moody, Pitt Meadows, Port Coquitlam: 604-540-2221
South Fraser region: 604-951-8855
- Rape/Sexual Assualt Crisis Lines
- WAVAW Rape Crisis Centre: 604-255-6344, TTY 604-254-6268
Rape Relief: 604-872-8212
- Spousal Abuse
- Battered Women's Support Services: 604-687-1867
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