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Featured Clicklaw Wikibook JP Boyd on Family Law JP Boyd on Family Law is the new home for the popular family law website from Vancouver lawyer JP Boyd. This Clicklaw wikibook is written in plain language, with handy pop-up definitions for legal words and phrases, and covers pretty much everything there is to know about family law and divorce law in British Columbia. To get started right away, read Family Law Basics for a quick introduction to the topic, see the How Do I? section for answers to common procedural questions, or dive into the Chapters. Featured Clicklaw Wikibook Contributors JP Boyd Author Cliff Thorstenson Alison Ward A growing pool of lawyers and editors are contributing to Clicklaw wikibooks operated by Courthouse Libraries BC.

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A person licensed to practice law in a particular jurisdiction by that jurisdiction's law society. See "barrister and solicitor."

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."

In law, the directions given by a client to their lawyer about either the conduct of their affairs or a court proceeding.