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Other people can have a legal interest in a child in addition to people who are parents. Most of the time these people are extended family members who have had a parent-like relationship with a child, such as a grandparent, an aunt or an uncle, or even a much older sibling, but any adult who has had a parenting role in a child's life may have an interest in a child.
Other people can have a legal interest in a child in addition to people who are parents. Most of the time these people are extended family members who have had a parent-like relationship with a child, such as a grandparent, an aunt or an uncle, or even a much older sibling, but any adult who has had a parenting role in a child's life may have an interest in a child.


This kind of legal interest plays out in one of two ways. Where a child's parents are doing a good enough job, an extended family member might want ''contact'' with the child, if time with the child is being withheld. Section 59(2) of the ''Family Law Act'' says this:
This kind of legal interest plays out in one of two ways. Where a child's parents are doing a good enough job, an extended family member might want ''contact'' with the child, if time with the child is being withheld. Section 59(2) of the ''[[Family Law Act]]'' says this:


<blockquote><tt>A court may grant contact to any person who is not a guardian, including, without limiting the meaning of "person" in any other provision of this Act or a regulation made under it, to a parent or grandparent.</tt></blockquote>
<blockquote><tt>A court may grant contact to any person who is not a guardian, including, without limiting the meaning of "person" in any other provision of this Act or a regulation made under it, to a parent or grandparent.</tt></blockquote>

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