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The ''[[Divorce Act]]'' talks about these issues in terms of ''decision-making responsibilities'', ''parenting time'' and ''contact''. Parenting time is the time the child spends with each parent. Contact is the time someone other than a parent, like a grandparent or another relative, has with a child. Decision-making responsibility is how the parents share the responsibility of making decisions on behalf of their child; these responsibilities can be shared by both parents or divided between parents such that one parent has responsibility for decisions about one part of their child's life, like education, while the other parent has responsibility for another issue, like health care.
The ''[[Family Law Act]]'' talks about these issues in very similar ways. It talks about ''guardianship'' and ''parental responsibilities'' (which is pretty much the same thing as decision-making responsibilities), ''parenting time'' (which is very close to the same as what thing the ''Divorce Act'' means by parenting time), and ''contact'' (which is exactly what the ''Divorce Act'' means by contact). People who are guardians, usually parents, have parental responsibilities and parenting time. Someone who isn't a guardian, which might include a parent who isn't a guardian, may have contact with a child.
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