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''Exhibits'' are documents that you attach to your affidavit, usually to support some point you're making in your affidavit. If, for example, you say that your income is $42,000 per year, you might want to attach your most recent T4 slip or your most recent income tax return to show that your income is in fact $42,000 per year. Exhibits can be almost anything: a receipt, a printout of your <span class="noglossary">child's</span> school's website, a letter, a doctor's note, a company search result, a report card, a speeding ticket, a photograph, an appraisal, a bank statement, a Valentine's Day card... pretty much anything. If something can be reduced to paper, it can be an exhibit. | ''Exhibits'' are documents that you attach to your affidavit, usually to support some point you're making in your affidavit. If, for example, you say that your income is $42,000 per year, you might want to attach your most recent T4 slip or your most recent income tax return to show that your income is in fact $42,000 per year. Exhibits can be almost anything: a receipt, a printout of your <span class="noglossary">child's</span> school's website, a letter, a doctor's note, a company search result, a report card, a speeding ticket, a photograph, an appraisal, a bank statement, a Valentine's Day card... pretty much anything. If something can be reduced to paper, it can be an exhibit. | ||
When you attach an exhibit, you have to introduce it in your affidavit. You can't just attach reams of documents to the back, you have to explain what the document is and | When you attach an exhibit, you have to introduce it in your affidavit. You can't just attach reams of documents to the back, you have to explain what the document is in your affidavit and say that the document you are attaching is a "true copy" of the original. Each exhibit is identified sequentially by a letter, "A", "B", "C" and so forth. For example: | ||
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<li>I have a lovely home on two acres of <span class="noglossary">land</span>. There are three bedrooms, a sauna | <li>I have a lovely home on two acres of <span class="noglossary">land</span>. There are three bedrooms, a sauna, an outdoor swimming pool and a private petting zoo for when Michael comes over. Attached to this my Affidavit as EXHIBIT "G" are true copies of photographs of my home. | ||
<li>My home is worth about $350,000. Attached to this my Affidavit as EXHIBIT "H" is a true copy of the 2013 BC Assessment for my home. | <li>My home is worth about $350,000. Attached to this my Affidavit as EXHIBIT "H" is a true copy of the 2013 BC Assessment for my home. | ||
</ol> | </ol> | ||