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| bio = '''John-Paul Boyd''', the founding author of [[JP Boyd on Family Law]], is a litigator, arbitrator, collaborative practitioner, mediator and parenting coordinator in private practice in Vancouver. John-Paul is a fellow of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. He has served on the Attorney General's Family Law Act Advisory Group and its predecessor, the Family Relations Act Review Advisory Committee, the editorial board of the Continuing Legal Education Society's Family Practice Manual and the Provincial Court's Family Law Rules Committee. He is the author of [[JP Boyd on Family Law]], a public legal education resource first published in 2001, and its syndicated companion [http://bcfamilylawresource.blogspot.ca/ blog], first published in 2008.
| bio = '''John-Paul Boyd''', the founding author of [[JP Boyd on Family Law]], is a litigator, arbitrator, collaborative practitioner, mediator and parenting coordinator in private practice in Vancouver. John-Paul is a fellow of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. He has served on the Attorney General's Family Law Act Advisory Group and its predecessor, the Family Relations Act Review Advisory Committee, the editorial board of the Continuing Legal Education Society's Family Practice Manual and the Provincial Court's Family Law Rules Committee. He is the author of [[JP Boyd on Family Law]], a public legal education resource first published in 2001, and its syndicated companion [http://bcfamilylawresource.blogspot.ca/ blog], first published in 2008.


John-Paul is a prolific writer and frequent speaker on family law topics, and has presented to the Canadian Bar Association, the Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia, the Continuing Legal Education Society, the Federation of Law Societies of Canada, the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, the provincial and superior courts of British Columbia, the Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench and the National Judicial Institute. His work has also appeared in the ''Lawyers Weekly'', the ''Advocate'' and the UBC Law Review. He is the author of [http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/pi/fcy-fea/spo-epo/calc/index.html Obtaining Reliable and Repeatable SSAG Calculations], published by the Department of Justice, and one of the authors of [http://resources.lss.bc.ca/pdfs/pubs/Guide-to-the-New-BC-Family-Law-Act-eng.pdf Guide to the New Family Law Act] published by the Legal Services Society.
John-Paul is a prolific writer and frequent speaker on family law topics, and has presented to the Canadian Bar Association, the Continuing Legal Education Society, the Federation of Law Societies of Canada, the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, the provincial and superior courts of British Columbia, the Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench and the National Judicial Institute. His work has also appeared in the ''Lawyers Weekly'', the ''Advocate'' and the UBC Law Review. He is the author of [http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/pi/fcy-fea/spo-epo/calc/index.html Obtaining Reliable and Repeatable SSAG Calculations], published by the Department of Justice, and one of the authors of [http://resources.lss.bc.ca/pdfs/pubs/Guide-to-the-New-BC-Family-Law-Act-eng.pdf Guide to the New Family Law Act] published by the Legal Services Society.


John-Paul has practiced family law since being called to the bar; he took his training as a mediator in 2005, his training as a parenting coordinator in 2007 and 2008, his training as an arbitrator in 2011 and his training as a collaborative practitioner in 2012. He has particular interests in legislation and law reform, the conflicts of laws and jurisdictional issues generally, heuristics and decision-making processes, children's involvement in the justice system, views of the child reports and the psychology of separation and divorce. He presently serves as a director of the Peoples Law School, the BC Parenting Coordinators Roster Society and the Family Law Arbitrators Group Society, and was a founding director of the BC Hear the Child Society.
John-Paul has been listed by the peer-reviewed Best Lawyers since 2010 and is a recipient of the CBA's National Pro Bono Service Award, the UBC Law Alumni Association's Outstanding Young Alumnus Award and the CBABC's Harry Rankin, QC Pro Bono Award. In a 2012 report of the BC Public Legal Education and Information Working Group, John-Paul was named as one of the six major providers of public legal education on family law in British Columbia, along with the Legal Services Society, the Canadian Bar Association, the Ministry of Justice, the University of Victoria Law Centre and the Justice Education Society.
John-Paul has been listed by the peer-reviewed Best Lawyers since 2010 and is a recipient of the CBA's National Pro Bono Service Award, the UBC Law Alumni Association's Outstanding Young Alumnus Award and the CBABC's Harry Rankin, QC Pro Bono Award. In a 2012 report of the BC Public Legal Education and Information Working Group, John-Paul was named as one of the six major providers of public legal education on family law in British Columbia, along with the Legal Services Society, the Canadian Bar Association, the Ministry of Justice, the University of Victoria Law Centre and the Justice Education Society.
Toronto, Ontario and now makes his home among the trees northeast of Maple Ridge, British Columbia. JP went to law school at the University of British Columbia and is a lawyer in private practice in Vancouver. He has practiced family law exclusively since being called to the bar and works as a litigator, collaborative lawyer, arbitrator, mediator and parenting coordinator.
JP is a prolific writer and frequent speaker on family law topics. He has served on the editorial board of the Continuing Legal Education Society's ''Family Practice Manual'', the Provincial Court's Family Law Rules Committee and the Attorney General's Family Law Act Advisory Group. He is the author of [[JP Boyd on Family Law]], a public legal education resource first published in 2001, and a companion [http://bcfamilylawresource.blogspot.ca/ blog], published since 2008.


See [http://www.jpboyd.com/ JP Boyd's full bio] on his website.   
See [http://www.jpboyd.com/ JP Boyd's full bio] on his website.   
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JP Boyd
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John-Paul Boyd, the founding author of JP Boyd on Family Law, is a litigator, arbitrator, collaborative practitioner, mediator and parenting coordinator in private practice in Vancouver. John-Paul is a fellow of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. He has served on the Attorney General's Family Law Act Advisory Group and its predecessor, the Family Relations Act Review Advisory Committee, the editorial board of the Continuing Legal Education Society's Family Practice Manual and the Provincial Court's Family Law Rules Committee. He is the author of JP Boyd on Family Law, a public legal education resource first published in 2001, and its syndicated companion blog, first published in 2008.

John-Paul is a prolific writer and frequent speaker on family law topics, and has presented to the Canadian Bar Association, the Continuing Legal Education Society, the Federation of Law Societies of Canada, the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, the provincial and superior courts of British Columbia, the Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench and the National Judicial Institute. His work has also appeared in the Lawyers Weekly, the Advocate and the UBC Law Review. He is the author of Obtaining Reliable and Repeatable SSAG Calculations, published by the Department of Justice, and one of the authors of Guide to the New Family Law Act published by the Legal Services Society.

John-Paul has been listed by the peer-reviewed Best Lawyers since 2010 and is a recipient of the CBA's National Pro Bono Service Award, the UBC Law Alumni Association's Outstanding Young Alumnus Award and the CBABC's Harry Rankin, QC Pro Bono Award. In a 2012 report of the BC Public Legal Education and Information Working Group, John-Paul was named as one of the six major providers of public legal education on family law in British Columbia, along with the Legal Services Society, the Canadian Bar Association, the Ministry of Justice, the University of Victoria Law Centre and the Justice Education Society.

See JP Boyd's full bio on his website.