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| resourcetype = a publication on ''Family Law Act'' basics titled <br/> | | resourcetype = a publication on ''Family Law Act'' basics titled <br/> | ||
| link = [http://clicklaw.bc.ca/resource/1058 Living Together or Living Apart] | | link = [http://clicklaw.bc.ca/resource/1058 Living Together or Living Apart] | ||
}}Your relationship may have been <span class="noglossary">brief</span>, but if you have had a child with someone, you are both responsible for meeting the child's financial needs and you both | }}Your relationship may have been <span class="noglossary">brief</span>, but if you have had a child with someone, you are both responsible for meeting the child's financial needs and you may both be entitled to participate in raising the child. Although the duty to pay child support comes from the simple fact of being a parent, whether you wanted to be a parent or not, being a parent doesn't come with the right to be involved in parenting a child. It is the ''child's'' right to benefit from the payment of child support and the ''child's'' right to be parented properly, to be provided with food, shelter, healthcare and clothing, and to be nurtured toward adulthood in the best way possible. | ||
Children have these rights whether their parents are married, living together in a marriage-like relationship or have no relationship with each other at all. This section is for unmarried parents who have had a child but never lived together, and, as result, don't qualify as "spouses" under the ''Family Law Act''. It talks about the legal issues unmarried parents may have to deal with and those they don't, and discusses the two most common issues parents have to deal with, child support and parenting children. | Children have these rights whether their parents are married, living together in a marriage-like relationship or have no relationship with each other at all. This section is for unmarried parents who have had a child but never lived together, and, as result, don't qualify as "spouses" under the ''Family Law Act''. It talks about the legal issues unmarried parents may have to deal with and those they don't, and discusses the two most common issues parents have to deal with, child support and parenting children. | ||
