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The <span class="noglossary">answer </span> is pretty simple most of the time: ''you don't''.
==Biological parents==
The only two ways to get out of an obligation to pay child support are to:
#have the child with you for the majority of the time, in which <span class="noglossary">case </span> the other parent <span class="noglossary">will</span> be required to pay child support to you; or,#give the child up for adoption, in which <span class="noglossary">case</span>, following the adoption, you <span class="noglossary">will</span> cease to have any obligations at all toward the child.
==Stepparents==
Under the ''Divorce Act'', this means someone who married a parent. Under the ''Family Law Act'', this means the guardian of child and and a person who was the married spouse or unmarried spouse of parent and contributed to the support of the parent's child for at least one year.
The nice thing about being a stepparent is that the other biological parent's obligation to pay child support can be taken into <span class="noglossary">account </span> when the amount of the stepparent's child support payments is being figured out, which usually means that support <span class="noglossary">will</span> be paid in an amount less than what the Child Support Guidelines require.
More information about who does and doesn't qualify as standing in the place of a parent is available in the chapter on [[Child Support]].