Parenting time and contact are both about the child's parenting schedule, although parenting time is about a bit more than just the child's schedule. Only guardians have parenting time under the ''[[Family Law Act]]''; people who aren't guardians have contact with a child. Under the ''[[Divorce Act]]'', it is usually only married spouses who have parenting time; however, people who are the parents of a child or intend to stand in the place of a parent to a child can apply to court for parenting time, if they get permission from the court to make the application first.

#*the child's birthday,#*Mothers' Day and Fathers' Day,#*the parties' birthdays,#*school holidays, religious holidays and statutory holidays,#*Halloween,#*extended access when there is a statutory holiday or a professional development day at school,#*special events at school, and#*birthdays of the child's friends.