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Under the ''Family Law Act'', someone who is not a parent or guardian can have ''contact'' with a child. When children are spending time with friends and extended family, they are having ''contact'' with these people. Agreements and court orders can formalize that contact. | Under the ''Family Law Act'', someone who is not a parent or guardian can have ''contact'' with a child. When children are spending time with friends and extended family, they are having ''contact'' with these people. Agreements and court orders can formalize that contact. | ||
Someone with contact does not have any | Someone with contact does not have any parental responsibilities for the child, such as the responsibility for day-to-day decision-making concerning the child. | ||
Contact can be as limited phone calls or | Contact can be as limited phone calls or Skype visits or as broad as overnights, weekends or holidays. A person’s contact with a child may also be supervised or monitored. Like all decisions about children, contact will only be ordered if it is in a child’s best interest to have that contact. | ||
It is very important to understand that a person's contact with a child is entirely separate from his or her obligation to pay child support. | It is very important to understand that a person's contact with a child is entirely separate from his or her obligation to pay child support. | ||
==Reports and assessments== | ==Reports and assessments== | ||
