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Some flexibility from both parents is a wonderful thing, but a situation where a parent is always backing out, cancelling, or changing dates is no good for anyone. Both parents have an obligation to stick to their parenting schedule as much as possible. Sure, things sometimes happen that make it impossible to meet an obligation in a parenting schedule, but being late or cancelling a visit has to be a solution of last resort and can't become a constant feature of the children's time with a parent.
It might be helpful to know that , under section 63 of the ''[[Family Law Act]]'', if a parent routinely fails to exercise parenting time or contact, then the other parent can apply to court to be reimbursed for any expenses they incurred as a result of the costs associated with the parent's failure to exercise the scheduled their parenting time. In an application brought under this section, a Court The court may also order a parent that: one or both parents to participate in family a dispute resolution, have process; one or both parents attend counselling or other services and/programs, with or their without the children; exchanges of the child attend counseling be supervised; or specified services or programs, the parent repay the other parent for travel expenses, lost wages or involve childcare expenses incurred as a supervisor for transfers result of a child. Addressing the missed visits is an option that was not previously available to parents under the old legislationparenting time.
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