{
  "code": "CA-BC",
  "name": "British Columbia",
  "last_reviewed": "2026-07",
  "confidence": "medium",
  "black_letter": "British Columbia\u2019s Family Law Act provides relatively modern parentage rules for assisted reproduction and donors, with strong emphasis on pre-conception intent/agreements. Informal AI can be planned within that framework; NI remains more fragile than AI. Federal gamete-payment limits still apply under the Assisted Human Reproduction Act.",
  "ai_informal": "statute_protects",
  "ni": "not_recognized",
  "physician_or_clinic_for_safe_harbor": "no",
  "agreement_effect": "statutory_sample_or_strong_intent_evidence",
  "key_citations": [
    {
      "label": "Family Law Act, SBC 2011, c 25, s. 24(1)",
      "url": "https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/11025_03",
      "quote": "If a child is born as a result of assisted reproduction, a donor who provided human reproductive material or an embryo for the assisted reproduction of the child (a) is not, by reason only of the donation, the child's parent, (b) may not be declared by a court, by reason only of the donation, to be the child's parent, and (c) is the child's parent only if determined, under this Part, to be the child's parent."
    },
    {
      "label": "Assisted Human Reproduction Act (federal payment rules)",
      "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-13.4/"
    }
  ],
  "emerging_law_note": "Confirm current Part 3 parentage sections on BC Laws (donor / assisted reproduction provisions). Pre-conception agreements remain best practice.",
  "page": "/Pages/CA/BC/bc.html",
  "region_group": "CA"
}