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* '''Supervised parenting time and contact:''' Under sections 45 and 59, a person's parenting time or contact can be subject to a requirement that it be supervised by a third party, like a relative or a professional supervisor.
* '''Conditions of parenting time and contact:''' Under section 218, the court may impose terms and conditions on any order it makes. Where family violence is an issue, appropriate terms and conditions might include exchanging the children in a public place, placing restrictions on how the parties are allowed to interact when the children are exchanged, restricting a family member to video or telephone parenting time or contact only, requiring that parenting time or contact only happen in a general or specific public place, or they might say that a party's parenting time or contact will not happen if the party is impaired by drugs or alcohol.
* '''Denial of parenting time:''' Sections 61-and 62 address what happens if one person or guardian denies parenting time or contact set out in a legal agreement or court order to another person or guardian.
** Under section 61, if a person is being denied parenting time or contact that they are entitled to have with a child under an agreement or order, they can apply to the court within 12 months of having been denied for various remedies such as make-up time, requiring a party or the child to attend counselling or other programs, attend family dispute resolution, pay a fine, or other remedies.
** Under section 62, if a guardian is denying parenting time or contact with a child, the court may decide that the denial was not wrongful. Section 62 sets out that denial is not wrongful if the guardian reasonably believed that a) the child might suffer family violence if the parenting time or contact with the child were exercised; or b) the applicant was impaired by drugs or alcohol at the time the parenting time or contact with the child was to be exercised. Objective evidence should be provided to the court that supports the reasonableness of the guardian’s belief in these circumstances. There are also other circumstances set out in section 62 under which a court may decide that the denial was not wrongful.