Difference between revisions of "Enforcing Family Law Agreements"

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The court can enforce agreements for parenting time or contact using its extraordinary power to jail someone, as well as certain other extraordinary powers intended for problems like these. Under section 231(4), where a guardian withholds parenting time or contact, the court can require a police officer to take the child to the person entitled to parenting time or contact. Under section 231(5), where a person with contact refuses to return the child to their guardian, the court can require a police officer to take the child to their guardian.
The court can enforce agreements for parenting time or contact using its extraordinary power to jail someone, as well as certain other extraordinary powers intended for problems like these. Under section 231(4), where a guardian withholds parenting time or contact, the court can require a police officer to take the child to the person entitled to parenting time or contact. Under section 231(5), where a person with contact refuses to return the child to their guardian, the court can require a police officer to take the child to their guardian.


Under section 62(2), the denial of parenting time or contact is not wrongful if:
Under section 62(2), the denial of parenting time or contact is not wrongful under the following circumstances:


<blockquote><tt>(a) the guardian reasonably believed the child might suffer family violence if the parenting time or contact with the child were exercised;</tt></blockquote>
<blockquote><tt>(a) the guardian reasonably believed the child might suffer family violence if the parenting time or contact with the child were exercised;</tt></blockquote>

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