Acts and Regulations

F-2.2 - Family Services Act

Section 96
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Parent and child relationship
96(1)Subject to subsection (2), for all purposes of the law of the Province a person is the child of his or her natural parents and his or her status as their child is independent of whether the child is born within or outside marriage.
96(2)An adopted child in respect of whom Part 6 of the Child and Youth Well-Being Act applies is the child of the adopting parents as if they were the natural parents.
96(3)The parent and child relationship as determined under subsection (1) or (2) shall be followed in the determination of other kindred relationships flowing therefrom.
96(4)Any distinction between the status of children born in wedlock and born out of wedlock is abolished and the relationship of parent and child and kindred relationships flowing therefrom shall be determined in accordance with this section.
96(5)This section applies to every person, whether born before or after this Part comes into force, and whether born in the Province or not and whether or not his or her father or mother has ever been domiciled in the Province.
2023, c.36, s.13
Parent and child relationship
96(1)Subject to subsection (2), for all purposes of the law of the Province a person is the child of his or her natural parents and his or her status as their child is independent of whether the child is born within or outside marriage.
96(2)An adopted child in respect of whom Part V applies is the child of the adopting parents as if they were the natural parents.
96(3)The parent and child relationship as determined under subsection (1) or (2) shall be followed in the determination of other kindred relationships flowing therefrom.
96(4)Any distinction between the status of children born in wedlock and born out of wedlock is abolished and the relationship of parent and child and kindred relationships flowing therefrom shall be determined in accordance with this section.
96(5)This section applies to every person, whether born before or after this Part comes into force, and whether born in the Province or not and whether or not his or her father or mother has ever been domiciled in the Province.