Difference between revisions of "Interim Applications and Supreme Court Family Law Proceedings"

}}Once a BC Supreme Court proceeding has started, it's often helpful, if not necessary, to get one or more short-term orders about important things like where the children will live, or whether and what amount of spousal support should be paid. It may also be necessary to get orders to resolve sticking points in the litigation process itself, often called ''procedural'' or ''case management'' orders. Whether the issue is something important (like the care of children, or the financial needs of a party), or a procedural question (like whether certain documents should be disclosed, or whether a case should be transferred to another registry), getting an order other than at trial often involves making a court application. For issues that need to be dealt with immediately, and which cannot wait months (or even years) until the trial held, the courts can grant short-term orders about important things, called ''interim orders'', and procedural orders about procedural things, but you must make an ''interim application'' in court.  

Other types of interim order deal with procedural questions about the management of the court proceeding, rather than with the relationship between the parties and their children. In Provincial Court these are called ''case management orders''. At either level of court, these orders can be useful to:

It might help to look at some of the common terms that are included in orders. Check out [https://www.clicklaw.bc.ca/resource/4130 Supreme Court Orders] and [https://www.clicklaw.bc.ca/resource/4085 Provincial Court Orders].