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| service_description = A BC government service, '''Family Justice Centres''' have family justice counsellors who can provide information and assistance with family-related legal issues such as parenting arrangements, contact,  guardianship, child and spousal support and no-contact orders. They cannot assist with strictly Supreme Court issues such as divorce or property division. Centres in Nanaimo, Victoria, Vancouver, Kamloops, Kelowna, New Westminster, Prince George, and Surrey provide legal advice through [[Duty Counsel#Family advice lawyers|family advice lawyers]]. Abbotsford, Nanaimo, Surrey, Victoria, and Vancouver locations also offer expanded self-help services through the [http://www.clicklaw.bc.ca/helpmap/service/1111 Justice Access Centres].
| service_description = A BC government service, '''Family Justice Centres''' have family justice counsellors who can provide information and assistance with issues related to separation or divorce. They cannot assist with strictly Supreme Court issues such as divorce or property division.  


| website = [http://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/life-events/divorce/family-justice gov.bc.ca]
| website = [https://www.gov.bc.ca/FamilyJusticeCentres]
| phone = 1-800-663-7867 (EnquiryBC, ask the operator to <span class="noglossary">transfer</span> you)
| phone = 1-800-663-7867 (EnquiryBC, ask the operator to <span class="noglossary">transfer</span> you)
| clicklaw_label = '''Find on Clicklaw'''
| clicklaw_label = '''Find on Clicklaw'''
| clicklaw_address = [http://clicklaw.bc.ca/helpmap/service/1019 Family Justice Centres on Clicklaw HelpMap]
| clicklaw_address = [https://www.clicklaw.bc.ca/services/family-justice-centres Family Justice Centres on Clicklaw Services]
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A BC government service, Family Justice Centres have family justice counsellors who can provide information and assistance with issues related to separation or divorce. They cannot assist with strictly Supreme Court issues such as divorce or property division.
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In law, to formally deliver documents to a person in a manner that complies with the rules of court. Service may be ordinary (mailed or delivered to a litigant's address for service), personal (hand-delivered to a person), or substituted (performed in a way other than the rules normally require). See "address for delivery," "ordinary service," "personal service" and "substituted service."

A judge of the superior courts of British Columbia, being the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal.

In family law, the decision of one or both parties to terminate a married or unmarried relationship; the act of one person leaving the family home to live somewhere else with the intention of terminating the relationship. There is no such thing as a "legal separation." In general, one separates by simply moving out, however, it is possible to be separated but still live under the same roof. See "divorce, grounds of."

The legal termination of a valid marriage by an order of a judge; the ending of a marital relationship and the conjugal obligations of each spouse to the other. See "conjugal rights," "marriage" and "marriage, validity of."

Normally referred to as the "Supreme Court of British Columbia," this court hears most of the trials in this province. The Supreme Court is a court of inherent jurisdiction and has no limits on the sorts of claims it can hear or on the sorts of orders it can make. Decisions of the Provincial Court are appealed to the Supreme Court; decisions of the Supreme Court are appealed to the Court of Appeal. See "Court of Appeal," "jurisdiction," "Provincial Court" and "Supreme Court of Canada."

Something which can be owned. See "chattels" and "real property."

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