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Someone who wants to change an order must first show that there has been a change in circumstances, normally an ''important'' change in circumstances. When the court is deciding what new parenting order or contact order it should make, the court must apply the bests interests of the child considerations and factors described in section 16.
===What happens if a spouse wants to move?===
If a spouse wants to move, with or without a child, and the move <span class="noglossary">will</span> have a "significant impact" on the child’s relationship with someone with decision-making responsibility, parenting time or contact, the spouse must give 60 days' notice of the move to anyone else who has decision-making responsibility, parenting time or contact. The notice must in the form required by the rules of court and say where the guardian plans on moving to, when the guardian plans on moving, and how decision-making responsibility, parenting time and contact can be exercised after the move. See the discussion on relocation under the heading [[Changing_Family_Law_Orders_and_Agreements_Involving_Children#Relocating_with_or_without_a_child | "Relocating with or without a child"]], in the section on [[Changing_Family_Law_Orders_and_Agreements_Involving_Children#Relocating_with_or_without_a_child | Changing Family Law Orders and Agreements Involving Children]] in the [[Children in Family Law Matters]] chapter.
If a person receiving this notice objects to the proposed move, they have 30 days to file an objection to the move. The objection must in the form required by the rules of court and say why the person objects and respond to the spouse's proposal on how decision-making responsibility, parenting time and contact can be exercised after the move. If no one objects after receiving the notice, then the spouse will usually be able to move.
When a spouse objects, how the spouses share the child's time becomes really important:
*When the spouses have ''substantially equal'' parenting time with the child, it is the job of the spouse who wants to move to show that the move ''is'' in the best interests of the child.
*When the child is with the spouse who wants to move for the ''vast majority'' of their time, it is the job of the objecting spouse to show that the move ''is not'' in the best interests of the child.
*In the in-between cases where the child's time isn't shared ''substantially equally'' and the child isn't in the care of a spouse for the ''vast majority'' of their time, ''both'' spouses have the job of showing whether the proposed move is or is not in the child's best interests.
Section 16.92 of the ''Divorce Act'' has a list of factors that the court should think about when deciding whether to allow a move or not. These include:
#the reasons for the move;
#the impact of the move on the child;
#whether there is an order, an arbitrator's award or an agreement that a spouse will not move; and,
#the reasonableness of the moving spouse's proposal on how decision-making responsibility, parenting time and contact can be exercised after the move.
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