Lawyers who qualify as ''family law arbitrators'' meet the training requirements of, and are accredited by, the Law Society of British Columbia. You can find out if a lawyer is a "family law arbitrator" by looking the lawyer up in the [https://www.lawsociety.bc.ca/lsbc/apps/lkup/mbr-search.cfm Lawyer Directory] on the Law Society's website. The training requirements that professionals other than lawyers must meet to qualify as "family dispute resolution professionals" are set out in section 5(2)(b) of the Family Law Act Regulation, and include:

It's important to know that, under section 5(3) of the regulation, people other than lawyers may only arbitrate disputes dealing with ''parenting children'', including contact with a child, and ''child support''. However, they can only deal with child support if:

As well, if children's special or extraordinary expenses are an issue that is to be resolved by an arbitrator who is not a lawyer, section 5(3)(c)(v) says that "the determination of what those expenses are and how they are to be calculated" must be "straightforward."