Use the current official form: This guide explains the role of Form F101 under Rule 15-2.1. Always check the current Rules and official form before filing, serving or relying on a deadline.
What Form F101 is for
Required when an order is sought appointing a person as guardian of a child, subject to the Rule’s exceptions.
Key points
- For an application under Rule 10-6, the applicant must serve a copy of Form F101 with the other application materials before filing the application package. Under Rule 15-2.1(1.1), the affidavit must be served and filed following the Rule 10-6 sequence. For a different application route, check the filing and service requirements that apply to that procedure.
- A person who is already a guardian within section 39 of the Family Law Act does not need to apply for guardianship or file F101 merely to be recognized as a guardian.
- The court may require other evidence and can make a time-limited interim guardianship order in the circumstances set by the Rule.
Practical steps
- Confirm that an appointment as guardian is actually being sought.
- Complete the current affidavit and obtain any information/checks the form requires.
- If applying under Rule 10-6, serve F101 with the unfiled application materials on every required recipient, then file it with the application package when Rule 10-6 permits the hearing to be set (see Rule 10-6(13.4)). For other routes, follow the filing and service requirements of those rules.
- Bring any additional evidence the court has directed.
Common mistakes
- Using F101 for ordinary parenting arrangements where no guardianship appointment is sought.
- Filing an F101 first in a Rule 10-6 application without following the October 1, 2026 serve-first process; or failing to serve an affected person.
- Assuming the affidavit alone guarantees appointment.
Related guides
Parenting & guardianship orders · F30 affidavit · All BC Supreme Court family forms