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<blockquote><tt>Subject to this Act, a court on application by a party may change, suspend or terminate an order, if there has been a change in circumstances since the order was made.</tt></blockquote>
In a 2016 case from the Court of Appeal, [http://canlii.ca/t/gnftl Williamson v Williamson], the court confirmed that the "change in circumstances" test that must be met under the ''Family Law Act'' before an application to vary parenting arrangements can be considered is the same test that applies to the variation of parenting orders under the ''Divorce Act,'' described in the case of Gordon v Goertz discussed above. Under this test, a ''material change in circumstances'' is:
* which was either not foreseen by the judge who made the original order.
When this preliminary test is met, the court will think about the orders that are best interests of the child as if the orders were being made for the first time. Whenever the court is asked to make an order about guardianship, parenting arrangements, and contact, section 37(1) of the act requires the court to consider only the best interests of the child. The factors to be taken into <span class="noglossary">account</span> in considering the best interests of the child are set out at sections 37 and 38.
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