Form 2: Notice of Intention to Proceed
Restart a BC Provincial Court family-law process after more than a year without a qualifying step.
Form 2 is a restart notice, not a new claim. There are two different routes: before Form 3 has been filed (Rule 15), and after an application has been filed but has not resulted in a final order (Rule 42).
Choose the correct route
Route A: No Form 3 application filed — Rule 15
- More than a year has passed since the latest of the listed early-resolution steps, such as Form 1, needs assessment, parenting education or a dispute-resolution session.
- File Form 2 and provide a copy to each other party.
- The parties must participate in a new needs assessment before continuing.
Route B: Form 3 already filed — Rule 42
- No final order has been made on the application and more than a year has passed since the parties took a step under the Rules.
- File Form 2, serve each other party and file a Form 7 Certificate of Service.
- The parties must participate in a Family Management Conference.
How to complete Form 2
- Use the same court file and registry if a family-law case with the same parties already exists.
- Enter the court file number (if relevant) and the parties’ names as shown in that file.
- Identify the family-law process you wish to continue and provide the required contact/address-for-service details.
- Sign the notice as directed by the official PDF, file it, and then provide or serve it using the rule that applies to your route.
- Keep a record of the date of delivery; Rule 42 requires a filed certificate of service.
Worked example
You submitted Form 1 in June 2025 and no other qualifying early-resolution step occurred by July 2026. Rule 15 may require Form 2 and a new needs assessment. If you instead filed Form 3 in June 2025 and the case remained inactive with no final order, Rule 42 may require Form 2, service, proof of service and a conference. Confirm exactly when the last qualifying step occurred.
What Form 2 does not do
- It does not automatically schedule a hearing.
- It does not replace a new Form 3 where a fresh application is actually required.
- The one-year test is more than one year, and the event that starts the calculation differs between Rules 15 and 42.
Next step
Ask the registry which rule applies to the procedural history. If your application has already been filed, see the Family Management Conference guide.