WE’RE
BACK!
The Children’s Legal and Educational Resource Centre’s new Board is working hard to bring CLERC into operation again.
Our first re-entry to the world is right here: our new website. Stay tuned as we bring CLERC back to life with more online activity as quickly as possible. We look forward to renewing old relationships and forging new ones.
We are currently working on revising all of our Questions & Answers.
CAUTIONARY NOTE: Youthlaw provides legal information, not legal advice. This website offers information about legal issues relevant to youth in Alberta. Please note that some of the questions and answers have not been revised recently. Revisions to our Q & A are ongoing, as the law is always changing.
You can find answers to questions about these law topics:
ADOPTION
Get answers to your law questions about adoption.
AGE OF CONSENT FOR SEXUAL ACTIVITY
Get answers to your law questions about age consent for sexual activity.
FORCED MARRIAGE
Get answers to your law questions about forced marriage.
GUARDIANSHIP
Get answers to your law questions about guardianship.
INDEPENDENT LIVING
Get answers to your law questions about independent living.
LGBTQIA2S+
Get answers to your law questions about 2-spirited, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and additional sexual orientations and gender identities.
MY PARENTS ARE SPLITTING UP
Get answers to your law questions about parents are splitting up.
PRIVACY
Get answers to your law questions about privacy.
SCHOOL
Get answers to your law questions about school.
TEEN PREGNANCY, CHILD SUPPORT
Get answers to your law questions about teen pregnancy and child support.
TENANT, LEASE AND LANDLORD
Get answers to your law questions about tenant, lease and landlord issues.
TOBACCO AND ALCOHOL
Get answers to your law questions about tobacco and alcohol.
WORKING
Get answers to your law questions about working.
We acknowledge that what we call Alberta is the traditional and ancestral territory of many peoples, presently subject to Treaties 6, 7, and 8. Namely: the Blackfoot Confederacy – Kainai, Piikani, and Siksika – the Cree, Dene, Saulteaux, Nakota Sioux, Stoney Nakoda, and the Tsuu T’ina Nation and the Métis People of Alberta. This includes the Métis Settlements and the Six Regions of the Métis Nation of Alberta within the historical Northwest Metis Homeland. We acknowledge the many First Nations, Métis and Inuit who have lived in and cared for these lands for generations. We are grateful for the traditional Knowledge Keepers and Elders who are still with us today and those who have gone before us. We make this acknowledgement as an act of reconciliation and gratitude to those whose territory we reside on or are visiting.