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→The court process in a nutshell
For more details see the section [[Interim Applications in Family Matters | Interim Applications]] in this chapter.
There are lots of details we've skipped over in this brief overview, including details about important things like experts, case conferences, and the rules of evidence, but this is the basic process in a nutshell. These other details are governed by each court's set of rules. The rules of court are very important, and the rules of the [http://canlii.ca/t/85pb b8rn Provincial Court] are ''very'' different than the rules of the [http://canlii.ca/t/8mcr Supreme Court].
You can probably guess that getting a court proceeding to trial can be a long and involved process, and that if you have a lawyer representing you, it'll cost a lot of money to wrap everything up. Making these procedural delays worse, trial dates are often in short supply. In Vancouver, for example, you may not be able to get dates for a one-week trial any sooner than 18 months.