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→Changing decision-making responsibilities and parental responsibilities
Applications to change orders about parental responsibilities under the ''Family Law Act'' are made under section 47 of the act, while applications to change awards about parental responsibilities are made under section 19.18(3) and applications to set aside agreements about parental responsibilities are made under section 44(4).
Before going this route, however, it's important to know that section 49 of the ''Family Law Act''lets parents go to court to get "directions" — an order — about decisions affecting a child, and it might be easier to do this than take a particular parental responsibility away from a guardian. Section 49 says this:
<blockquote><tt>A child's guardian may apply to a court for directions respecting an issue affecting the child, and the court may make an order giving the directions it considers appropriate.</tt></blockquote>
It's also important to know, however, that the Court of Appeal, in a 2017 case called [https://canlii.ca/t/hnw49 N.R.G. v G.R.G.], said that the primary responsibility for making decisions affecting children belongs to the children's guardians and that it will not always be appropriate for the court to assume that responsibility:
==Changing parenting time and contact==