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===Child support=== | ===Child support=== | ||
Child support is payable by anyone who is the parent of a child, regardless of the nature or brevity of the relationship that produced the child. The ''Family Law Act'' says, at section 147, that "each parent" has a duty to provide support for their child. | Child support is payable by anyone who is the parent of a child, regardless of the nature or brevity of the relationship that produced the child. The ''Family Law Act'' says, at section 147, that "each parent" has a duty to provide support for their child. Under section 150(1) of the act, child support is to be paid in the amount determined under the [[Child Support Guidelines]]. | ||
Nothing in the ''Family Law Act'' or the [[Child Support Guidelines]] allows a parent to escape paying support through some quirk in the circumstances under which the child was conceived, including whether the pregnancy was planned or not, whether it came about as result of a sexual assault, or whether it came about as a result of some deception on the part of the birth mother. The only question that might be left open is whether or not the person being asked to pay child support is the "parent" of the child for whom support is sought. If that's an issue, a paternity test can always be taken under section 33 of the act. | |||
You can find additional information about child support and the Child Support Guidelines in the [[Child Support]] chapter of this resource. | |||
===Parenting children=== | |||
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Under section 40(1) of the ''[[Family Law Act]]'', only people who are the guardians of a child have ''parental responsibilities'' and ''parenting time'' in relation to that child. People who are not the guardians of a child may have ''contact'' with the child but do not have the right to participate in making decisions about the raising of the child or the right to get information from the important people involved in the child's life, such as doctors, teachers, counsellors, coaches, and so on. | Under section 40(1) of the ''[[Family Law Act]]'', only people who are the guardians of a child have ''parental responsibilities'' and ''parenting time'' in relation to that child. People who are not the guardians of a child may have ''contact'' with the child but do not have the right to participate in making decisions about the raising of the child or the right to get information from the important people involved in the child's life, such as doctors, teachers, counsellors, coaches, and so on. | ||