| bio = '''John-Paul Boyd''' is the founding author of ''[[JP Boyd on Family Law]]'' and a member of the publication's editorial and advisory committees. He is also a member of and the [[:Category:Clicklaw Wikibooks Advisory Committee|Clicklaw Wikibooks Advisory Committee]]. In September 2013He is a family law arbitrator, a family law mediator and a parenting coordinator, and a member of the bars of Alberta and British Columbia. John-Paul became practiced family law in Vancouver for 14 years before taking a position as the executive director of the [http://www.crilf.ca/index.html Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family], a non-profit organization affiliated with the University of Calgary, in 2013. He is well known took his training as a mediator in 2005, as a litigatorparenting coordinator in 2007, as an arbitrator, in 2011 and as a collaborative practitionerin 2012, mediator and <span class="noglossary">parenting coordinator</span> from his days in private returned to full-time practice in Vancouver2018.

John-Paul is a fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers , and a member of the ADR Institute of Canada, the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts and , the International Society of Family Lawand the Canadian Bar Association. He has served presently serves on the Attorney General's Family CBA’s Children’s Law Act Advisory GroupCommittee and the CBA Alberta’s Access to Justice Committee, and is a jury member for the editorial board of Walter Owen Book Prize awarded by the Continuing Canadian Foundation For Legal Education Society's ''Family Practice Manual'' and the <span class="noglossary">Provincial Court</span>'s Family Law Rules CommitteeResearch.

John-Paul is a prolific writer regularly writes and speaker lectures on family law topicsfor courts, law societies, bar associations and the public. He is a frequent presenter speaker for the Federation of Law Societies of Canada's National Family Law Program, the National Judicial Institute, the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, the Trial Lawyers Association of British ColumbiaNational Family Law Program, the Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia BC, the Trial Lawyers Association of BC, and the Legal Education Society of Alberta. He teaches , and has provided the family law course for upper-year law students at the University of Calgary and his . His written work has been published by organizations including the ''U.B.C. UBC Law Review'', ''Canadian Family Law Quarterly'', the ''International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family'' , the ''Journal of International Aging, Law and Policy'', ''The Advocate'', the National Judicial Institute, the Nova Scotia Department of Justice, slaw.ca and ''The Lawyer’s Daily''. He is a member of the advisory boards board of the ''Canadian Journal of Family Law'' and the Alberta Legal Information Society. He is the author of [http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/fl-lf/spousal-epoux/calc/index.html Obtaining Reliable and Repeatable SSAG Calculations], published by the Department of Justice.

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 CBA British Columbia's Harry Rankin, <span class="noglossary">QC</span> 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 BC, 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. ''[[JP Boyd on Family Law]]'' is the successor to John-Paul's long-time public legal education website, JP Boyd's BC Family Law Resource (www.bcfamilylawresource.com), first published in 2001.