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Difference between revisions of "Family Relationships"

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====Parents through natural reproduction====
====Parents through natural reproduction====


Under s. 26, a child's parents are presumed to be the child's ''birth mother'' and ''biological father''. This includes ''everyone'' who is a mother or a father, regardless of the nature of the parents' relationship with each other. They could be married spouses or unmarried spouses, dating each other or not dating at all.
Under section 26, a child's parents are presumed to be the child's ''birth mother'' and ''biological father''. This includes ''everyone'' who is a mother or a father, regardless of the nature of the parents' relationship with each other. They could be married spouses or unmarried spouses, dating each other or not dating at all.


====Parents through assisted reproduction====
====Parents through assisted reproduction====
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*a surrogate mother ''is a parent'', unless everyone has signed an assisted reproduction agreement that makes her not a parent.
*a surrogate mother ''is a parent'', unless everyone has signed an assisted reproduction agreement that makes her not a parent.


If you do the math, you'll see that under the ''Family Law Act'' a child can have up to five parents. The act doesn't discriminate between parents who are intended parents and parents who are donors or surrogate mothers. In for a penny, in for a pound, as the saying goes: a parent under an assisted reproduction agreement is liable to pay child support just like every other parent, but is also presumed to be the guardian of a child under s. 39(3).
If you do the math, you'll see that under the ''Family Law Act'' a child can have up to five parents. The act doesn't discriminate between parents who are intended parents and parents who are donors or surrogate mothers. In for a penny, in for a pound, as the saying goes: a parent under an assisted reproduction agreement is liable to pay child support just like every other parent, but is also presumed to be the guardian of a child under section 39(3).


===Caregivers and extended family relationships===
===Caregivers and extended family relationships===