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Changing guardianship
*can appoint another person to be a guardian of the child in the event of their death.
People On the other hand, people who aren't guardians , including parents who aren't guardians, don't have ''any '' of these entitlements, including parents who aren't guardians. They best they can hope to have is contact with the child, but they won't have day-to-day care and control of the child or day-to-date decision-making responsibility for the child when the child is with them, they're not entitled to get information about the child's health and education, and they can't object if a guardian wants to move with the child.
As a result, the court will usually look at the conflict between the guardians to see whether any other options will solve the problem before taking the drastic step of removing someone's standing as a guardian. In [https://canlii.ca/t/fz3fl D. v D.], a 2013 Provincial Court decision, the court described such orders as “extreme” and granted only in “rare” cases: