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People who are "parents" under the ''Family Law Act'', including stepparents, are required to help their children by paying ''child support''. People who are parents may also ask for orders about ''parental responsibilities'' and ''parenting time''. People who aren't parents are usually limited to asking for orders giving them ''contact'' with a child. | People who are "parents" under the ''Family Law Act'', including stepparents, are required to help their children by paying ''child support''. People who are parents may also ask for orders about ''parental responsibilities'' and ''parenting time''. People who aren't parents are usually limited to asking for orders giving them ''contact'' with a child. | ||
Part 3 of the provincial ''Family Law Act'' provides a comprehensive scheme for determining the parentage of children that applies for all legal purposes in British Columbia, including for family law disputes and wills and estates matters, except when parentage is determined under the ''[http://canlii.ca/t/84g5 Adoption Act]''. Section 24 says this: | |||
<blockquote><tt>(1) For all purposes of the law of British Columbia,</tt></blockquote> | |||
<blockquote><blockquote><tt>(a) a person is the child of his or her parents,</tt></blockquote></blockquote> | |||
<blockquote><blockquote><tt>(b) a child's parent is the person determined under this Part to be the child's parent, and</tt></blockquote></blockquote> | |||
<blockquote><blockquote><tt>(c) the relationship of parent and child and kindred relationships flowing from that relationship must be as determined under this Part.</tt></blockquote></blockquote> | |||
<blockquote><tt>(2) For the purposes of an instrument or enactment that refers to a person, described in terms of his or her relationship to another person by birth, blood or marriage, the reference must be read as a reference to, and read to include, a person who comes within the description because of the relationship of parent and child as determined under this Part.</tt></blockquote> | |||
Section 26(1) says who a child's parents are presumed to be: | |||
<blockquote><tt>On the birth of a child not born as a result of assisted reproduction, the child's parents are the birth mother and the child's biological father.</tt></blockquote> | |||
Sections 27, 28, 29 and 30 have other rules about who are the parents of children conceived by assisted reproduction. Under these rules people can agree that a child's parents are or aren't the birth mother and the child's biological father, and that other people will or won't be parents including someone who donates sperm or eggs and someone who is the spouse of a child's birth mother. | |||
===Natural reproduction=== | ===Natural reproduction=== | ||