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| bio = '''JP Boyd''', the founding author of [[JP Boyd on Family Law]], hails from Toronto, Ontario and now makes his home among the trees northeast of Maple Ridge, British Columbia. JP went to law school at the University of British Columbia and is a lawyer in private practice in Vancouver. He has practiced family law exclusively since being called to the bar and works as a litigator, collaborative lawyer, arbitrator, mediator and parenting coordinator.  


John-Paul went to law school at the University of British Columbia and is a lawyer in private practice in Vancouver. He has practiced family law exclusively since being called to the bar and works as a litigator, collaborative lawyer, arbitrator, mediator and parenting coordinator. He is occasionally retained to prepare views of the child reports, which he greatly enjoys.
JP is a prolific writer and frequent speaker on family law topics. He has served on the editorial board of the Continuing Legal Education Society's ''Family Practice Manual'', the Provincial Court's Family Law Rules Committee and the Attorney General's Family Law Act Advisory Group. He is the author of [[JP Boyd on Family Law]], a public legal education resource first published in 2001, and a companion [http://bcfamilylawresource.blogspot.ca/ blog], published since 2008.


John-Paul is a fellow of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. He has served on the editorial board of the Continuing Legal Education Society's Family Practice Manual, the Provincial Court's Family Law Rules Committee and the Attorney General's Family Law Act Advisory Group. He is the author of this public legal education resource, first published in 2001, and its syndicated companion [http://bcfamilylawresource.blogspot.ca/ blog], published since 2008.
See [http://www.jpboyd.com/ JP Boyd's full bio] on his website.
 
John-Paul is a prolific writer and frequent speaker on family law topics, and has presented to the Canadian Bar Association, the Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia, the Law Society's legal training course, the Continuing Legal Education Society, the Federation of Law Societies of Canada, the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, the Provincial Court of British Columbia and the National Judicial Institute. His written work has also appeared in ''The Lawyers Weekly'', ''BarTalk'', ''The Family Way'', ''Canadian Family Law Matters'', ''The Advocate'' and the ''UBC Law Review''. He is the author of "[http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/pi/fcy-fea/spo-epo/calc/pdf/orrssagc.pdf Obtaining Reliable and Repeatable SSAG Calculations]" (PDF), published by the Department of Justice.
 
John-Paul has practiced family law since being called to the bar. He took his training as a mediator in 2005, his training as a parenting coordinator in 2007 and 2008, his training as an arbitrator in 2011 and his training in collaborative practice in 2012. He has particular interests in legislation and law reform, the conflicts of laws and jurisdictional issues generally, heuristics and decision-making processes, alternatives to litigation, children's involvement in the justice system and preparing views of the child reports, and the psychology of separation and divorce. He presently serves as a director of the BC Parenting Coordinators Roster Society, the Family Law Arbitrators Group Society and the Peoples Law School, and was a founding director of the BC Hear the Child Society.
 
John-Paul has been listed by the peer-reviewed [http://www.bestlawyers.com/ Best Lawyers] since 2010 and is a recipient of the CBA's National Pro Bono Service Award, the UBC Law Alumni Association's Outstanding Young Alumnus Award and the CBABC's Harry Rankin, QC Pro Bono Award. In a 2012 report of the BC Public Legal Education and Information Working Group, John-Paul was named as one of the six major providers of public legal education on family law in British Columbia, along with the Legal Services Society, the Canadian Bar Association, the Ministry of Justice, the University of Victoria Law Centre and the Justice Education Society
 
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JP Boyd, the founding author of JP Boyd on Family Law, hails from Toronto, Ontario and now makes his home among the trees northeast of Maple Ridge, British Columbia. JP went to law school at the University of British Columbia and is a lawyer in private practice in Vancouver. He has practiced family law exclusively since being called to the bar and works as a litigator, collaborative lawyer, arbitrator, mediator and parenting coordinator.

JP is a prolific writer and frequent speaker on family law topics. He has served on the editorial board of the Continuing Legal Education Society's Family Practice Manual, the Provincial Court's Family Law Rules Committee and the Attorney General's Family Law Act Advisory Group. He is the author of JP Boyd on Family Law, a public legal education resource first published in 2001, and a companion blog, published since 2008.

See JP Boyd's full bio on his website.

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