Acts and Regulations

2020, c.23 - Family Law Act

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Parenting orders
52(1)Unless otherwise agreed by written agreement or ordered by the Court, if a child has more than one parent, the parents have shared parenting time and shared decision-making responsibility with respect to the child.
52(2)The Court may make a parenting order providing for the exercise of parenting time or decision-making responsibility in respect of any child on application by
(a) one or more parents, or
(b) a person, other than a parent, who stands in the place of a parent or intends to stand in the place of a parent.
52(3)On application by a person referred to in subsection (2), the Court may make an interim parenting order in respect of the child, pending the determination of an application made under that subsection.
52(4)In a parenting order, the Court may
(a) allocate parenting time in accordance with subsection 53(1),
(b) allocate decision-making responsibility in accordance with section 54,
(c) with regard to communication that takes place during the parenting time allocated to a person, include requirements with respect to any means of communication used between a child and another person to whom parenting time or decision-making responsibility is allocated,
(d) direct the parties to attend a family dispute resolution process,
(e) authorize or prohibit the relocation of a child,
(f) require that parenting time or the transfer of a child from one person to another be supervised,
(g) prohibit the removal of a child from a specified geographic area without the written consent of a specified person or without a court order authorizing the removal, and
(h) provide for any other matter that the Court considers appropriate.
52(5)The Court may make a parenting order for a definite or indefinite period or until a specified event occurs, and may impose any terms, conditions and restrictions in the order that it considers appropriate.
52(6)On application, the Court may vary or discharge a parenting order.
Parenting orders
52(1)Unless otherwise agreed by written agreement or ordered by the Court, if a child has more than one parent, the parents have shared parenting time and shared decision-making responsibility with respect to the child.
52(2)The Court may make a parenting order providing for the exercise of parenting time or decision-making responsibility in respect of any child on application by
(a) one or more parents, or
(b) a person, other than a parent, who stands in the place of a parent or intends to stand in the place of a parent.
52(3)On application by a person referred to in subsection (2), the Court may make an interim parenting order in respect of the child, pending the determination of an application made under that subsection.
52(4)In a parenting order, the Court may
(a) allocate parenting time in accordance with subsection 53(1),
(b) allocate decision-making responsibility in accordance with section 54,
(c) with regard to communication that takes place during the parenting time allocated to a person, include requirements with respect to any means of communication used between a child and another person to whom parenting time or decision-making responsibility is allocated,
(d) direct the parties to attend a family dispute resolution process,
(e) authorize or prohibit the relocation of a child,
(f) require that parenting time or the transfer of a child from one person to another be supervised,
(g) prohibit the removal of a child from a specified geographic area without the written consent of a specified person or without a court order authorizing the removal, and
(h) provide for any other matter that the Court considers appropriate.
52(5)The Court may make a parenting order for a definite or indefinite period or until a specified event occurs, and may impose any terms, conditions and restrictions in the order that it considers appropriate.
52(6)On application, the Court may vary or discharge a parenting order.