Legal Notices

This page contains a few important legal notices for users of this website. Please read this page carefully; your use of this website signifies your agreement to the terms and conditions set out in this page.

This page contains a legal notice about the terms governing your use of this website, a statement of our privacy and confidentiality policy, and a copyright notice governing the contents of this website and the terms under which it may be reused.

Terms of Use of this Website

This website contains general, simplified — some would say oversimplified — information about family law, divorce law and the court process in British Columbia, Canada. Much of the information in this website will not be relevant to users outside of British Columbia; it certainly will not be relevant to users outside of Canada. This website does NOT offer legal advice, nor should it be taken as such. It should NOT be taken as the final word on the areas of the law it covers. The author strongly encourages all users of this web site to seek proper legal advice, for which the information in this website cannot substitute.

The views and opinions expressed in this website are solely those of the author and should not be taken as representative of or be attributed to those of the Canadian Bar Association, the Law Society of British Columbia or the law firm Aaron Gordon & Daykin, all entities to which this website and its content are entirely unrelated.

Disclaimer of Liability

The information and links contained in this website are NOT intended to provide legal advice to any person or entity and should NOT be used as a substitute for the advice of a qualified lawyer. When using this website or any other website to which this site links, be aware that the information, including legislation, may be out of date and/or may not apply or be appropriate to your particular set of circumstances or your judicial jurisdiction. As legal advice must be tailored to the specific circumstances of each case and the law is constantly changing, you should NOT rely solely on the information set out in this website or in any other website to which this website links. Anyone with a legal question or legal problem should always consult with and seek the advice of a qualified lawyer.

The author does not make any representations, warranties, claims, promises or guarantees about the completeness, accuracy or adequacy of the information or links in this website, or about the completeness, accuracy or adequacy of the information contained in any other website to which this site links.

IMPORTANT LIMITATION OF LIABILITY: In no event shall the author be liable to you or to any other person or entity for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages whatsoever, including but not limited to loss of revenue or profit, lost or damaged data or other commercial or economic loss, even if the author has been advised of the possibility of such damages or if they are foreseeable, or for claims by a third party. The limitations and exclusions on this webpage shall apply irrespective of the cause of action, including but not limited to negligence, strict liability, tort, or any other legal theory.

Conflict of Interest Notice and Waiver

Mere use of this website shall not give rise to a conflict of interest in any proceeding in which the author represents a party.

Non-Retainer Notice

The author does not accept as clients people who have contacted him through this website.

Your receipt an email from the author in reply to an email you sent through this website does NOT constitute legal advice and does NOT establish a solicitor-client relationship between the author and yourself.

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Privacy and Confidentiality Policy

This website does not use cookies and no information is collected, stored or retained about the individual users of this website, for commercial or any other purposes.

By emailing the author of this website, you acknowledge and agree that any email you transmit to the author will be NOT be considered confidential. Giving feedback to the author via email will NOT establish a solicitor-client relationship, and any correspondence exchanged by email and/or posted to this website is NOT protected by solicitor-client privilege and may be compellable by third-parties for the purposes of discovery.

Putting things more simply, the author collects no information at all about the users of this website. However, you must understand that any email you send to the author is not private or privileged, and may be produced if the court orders the author to produce those emails.

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Copyright Notice and Conditional Licence

All textual and graphic content of this website, including the underlying source code, is Copyright © 2001-2006 John-Paul Boyd (photography, public domain java scripts, legislative cites, exerpts from case law and exerpts from the works of others excluded), and is therefore the intellectual property of the author. Just because this information is made available to the public at no charge doesn't mean that it is not protected by copyright or that it is not the intellectual property of the author.

Please don't plagiarize; plagiary is theft.

If you want to use the copyrighted material contained in this website for any other purpose than your own personal research, such as for copying, reproduction in another form or in another document, posting on the web or redistribution to third parties, you must contact the author through the links provided in the "Feedback" section of this site to obtain the author's permission for such use.

Non-profit, educational and charitable organizations may use the copyrighted material contained in this website without restriction, on the express conditions that:

  1. the author is notified of the intended use;
  2. the author and this website receive credit as the source of the material; and,
  3. a link to this website or the address of this website is included with the exerpted material.

Unauthorized reproduction or other use of the copyrighted material in this website is expressly forbidden.

Attention, Students!

This website has been crawled by www.turnitin.com, although not at the author's behest. You might want to think twice before "borrowing" too liberally from this site.

Email Correspondence

This website allows you submit your comments to the author by email, all or some of which may be posted to the website. By emailing the author of this website, you: grant the author and this website a royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive, irrevocable, unrestricted, worldwide license to use, reproduce, store, adapt, modify, transmit, distribute or display such email for any purpose; agree to waive all moral rights in any email in favour of the author; and, consent to your name, address and e-mail appearing as the contributor of any email.

Neither the author nor this website are responsible for the content of any emails sent to the author and/or posted on this website. Emails posted to this website do not represent the opinions and views of the author.


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