Difference between revisions of "Family LawLINE"

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'''Phone''': Call between 9:30 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. weekdays.
  
 
| website = [http://www.legalaid.bc.ca legalaid.bc.ca]
 
| website = [http://www.legalaid.bc.ca legalaid.bc.ca]

Revision as of 00:26, 6 December 2011

Family LawLINE is a service provided by the Legal Services Society. Family LawLINE lawyers give free legal advice over the phone to people with low incomes who are experiencing family law issues and give brief "next step" advice about family law issues such as:
  • custody, access, and guardianship;
  • child and spousal support;
  • property division;
  • family agreements;
  • adoption; and
  • court procedures.

Phone: Call between 9:30 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. weekdays.

Website legalaid.bc.ca
Phone 604-408-2172
Toll-free: 1-866-577-2525
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In law, (1) a written argument, or (2) a memorandum of law. A brief is usually presented to a judge as a summary of an argument or the law on a particular issue. Curiously, briefs are rarely brief.

In family law, an antiquated term used by the old Divorce Act to describe the right to possess a child and make parenting decisions concerning the child's health, welfare and upbringing. Replaced in the new Divorce Act with the term decision-making responsibility." See "access," "decision-making responsibility" and "parenting time."

Under the old Divorce Act, the schedule of a parent's time with their children under an order or agreement, replaced with "parenting time" and "contact" in the new Divorce Act. Access usually referred to the schedule of the parent with the least amount of time with the child. See "contact," "custody" and "parenting time."

A payment made by one spouse to the other spouse to help with the recipient's day-to-day living expenses or to compensate the recipient for the financial choices the spouses made during the relationship.

Something which can be owned. See "chattels" and "real property."

In family law, the act or process of taking another person's child as one's own. The child becomes the adopting parent's legal child as if the child were the adopting parent's natural child, while the natural parent loses all rights and obligations with respect to the child. See "natural parent."

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