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If the parents can’t agree on how to share parental responsibilities or decision-making responsibility, judges and arbitrators can make orders and awards about how they'll be shared. These orders and awards can be general or very specific. Sometimes a judge or an arbitrator will make a general order or award that parents will share this authority and must talk to each other before exercising their authority and making a decision about a child. If necessary, a judge or an arbitrator can make a specific order or award that only one parent will have this authority, or make an order or award that each parent will have the authority to make certain decisions but not others. An order or award like this might say that one parent has sole responsibility for making health care decisions, while the other has sole responsibility for making decisions about education, and they both have responsibility for making decisions about their child's extracurricular activities.
The different kinds of decisions that fall under ''decision-making responsibility'' is are provided at section 2(1) of the ''Divorce Act'':
<blockquote><tt>Decision-making responsibility means the responsibility for making significant decisions about a child’s well-being, including in respect of</tt></blockquote>