Child Custody & Parenting Plans
Parenting time, decision-making responsibility, and detailed parenting plans — negotiated or litigated, always focused on the best interests of the child.
Parenting after separation.
The Divorce Act and Ontario’s Children’s Law Reform Act now use the terms parenting time and decision-making responsibility — language that replaced “custody” and “access” in 2021. The legal framework has changed, but the underlying question has not: what arrangement is in the best interests of the child?
What the firm helps with
- Negotiating and drafting detailed parenting plans.
- Decision-making responsibility — joint, sole, or divided by subject matter (education, health, religion).
- Schedules — school year, holidays, March Break, summer, special occasions.
- Travel, relocation, and passport consent.
- Motions to vary existing parenting orders where circumstances have materially changed.
Best interests
Both statutes require the child’s best interests to be the sole consideration. That includes the child’s needs, each parent’s ability to meet them, the child’s views where age-appropriate, and any family violence. The firm’s work focuses on building parenting arrangements that are stable and workable day-to-day.