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Today, most Canadians see divorce as a normal life event, an event that most but not all people go through and an event that prudent people even anticipate and plan for. More Canadians are married and divorced now than ever before in Canadian history, and, likewise, more Canadians have divorced and remarried now than ever before. Once upon a time, blended families were bizarre and unusual — and wasn't that the whole premise of ''The Brady Bunch''? — but today, blended families are commonplace.
To get divorced, one spouse has to sue the other for a divorce order. You can't just agree to it. And to get a court order, you must start a court proceeding, just as if you were suing someone after a car crash, suing your employer for firing you, or suing your neighbour for building a fence on your side of the property line. The court you must start your proceeding in is the [https://www.bccourts.ca/supreme_court/ Supreme Court], as the [https://www.bccourtsprovincialcourt.bc.ca/provincial_court/ Provincial Court] cannot doesn't have the jurisdiction to make orders under the ''[[Divorce Act]]''.
==Preconditions for applying =Criteria to apply for a divorce in BC===
If you want to get a divorce in BCBritish Columbia, you must first satisfy three conditions:
==The grounds for divorce==