Introduction to JP Boyd on Family Law

Clicklaw Wikibooks has teamed up with Vancouver lawyer John-Paul Boyd to turn his popular family law website, www.bcfamilylawresource.com, into this new Clicklaw Wikibook title, JP Boyd on Family Law. The migration of John-Paul's website into this new format preserves the accessibility, scope and tone of the original, which provided free family law information to more than 27,000 British Columbians a month and had been published for more than a decade.

As a wikibook, JP Boyd on Family Law continues John-Paul's commitment to explaining the legal system and providing free, plain language information on family law and divorce law, court processes and other family law dispute resolution mechanisms, while harnessing the versatility and strength of MediaWiki, the same open-source wiki platform that powers Wikipedia. The clean page layout online provides a familiar user experience, and the search functionality enables fulltext searching over the entire wikibook and others on Clicklaw Wikibooks. The wiki platform's book creator function allows libraries and individual readers to print as little or as much of the wikibook as they want, in convenient, user-friendly PDF or book formats that expand the reach of this resource to benefit British Columbians online and off.

A collaborative, community resource

John-Paul Boyd continues at the helm of JP Boyd on Family Law and is now joined by an editorial team of experienced family law lawyers who are committed to delivering comprehensive, useful and easy to understand family law information. The editorial team represents an enriching diversity of opinion, knowledge and perspective, while the Clicklaw Wikibook's platform enables them to respond to changes in the law quickly. The term wiki actually means "fast" or "quick" in Hawaiian, so the idea is that updates will immediately be available to readers at wiki.clicklaw.bc.ca.

John-Paul and the wikibook's editorial team are guided and assisted by an advisory committee composed of family law lawyers, public and legal library representatives, and educators.

Clicklaw Wikibooks

Transitioning John-Paul's resource to a wiki format enables a highly accessible experience both online and in print. You might be reading this page on a laptop in a coffee shop, or you could be flipping through this book at a public library. Both digital and print formats are made possible by the technology that powers Clicklaw Wikibooks, and helps provide legal information for the public and improve the legal collections of public libraries in British Columbia.

If you are interested in contributing as a writer, commentator or as a member of the editorial team, or have any feedback or other remarks about this wikibook, please contact editor@clicklaw.bc.ca.

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