Parent-Child Relationships Definitions: FLA, Vital Statistics and Adoption Act determine who a parent is. child of the marriage defined as a child of 2 spouses including any Divorce Act: child for whom they both stand in the place of parent and any child whom is the parent and for whom the other stands in. part 3 (parentage) Family Law Act: Section 23: (1) for all purposes of the law of BC, (a) a person is the child of his or her parents (b) a parent is the person determined under this part to be a child’s parent and child’s (c) the relationship of parent and child and kindred relationships flowing from that relationship must be as determined under this Part Section 24: Donor not automatically parent Section 25: If child is adopted and sections 26-30 of this act do not apply, the parents are set out in the Adoption Act. child’s Section 26: If no assisted reproduction then parents are birth mother and biological father. (3) if more than one person may be presumed ot be a bio daddy, no presumption of paternity, (2) male person is child’s presumed unless contrary in (3) in the following circumstances: (a) Married to the mother on the day of the child’s child’s birth (b) Married to the mother and within 300 days child’s before the child birth, marriage ended by death, divorce or s. 21 (void or voidable marriages. (c) married the brith mother after the birth child’s child’s and acknowledges that he is the father (d) living with the birth mother in a marriage-like child’s relationship within 300 days before or on the day of the birth child’s (e) he with the mother signed statement under s. 3 child’s of the Vital Statistics Act acknowledging he is the father (f) he acknowledged that he is the father by signing an agreement under s. 20 of the Child Paternity and Support Act. Section 27: Assisted Reproduction Section 29: Surrogacy Arrangement
Parent-Child Relationships Definitions: FLA, Vital Statistics and Adoption Act determine who a parent is. Divorce Act: child of the marriage defined as a child of 2 spouses including any child for whom they both stand in the place of parent and any child whom is the parent and for whom the other stands in. Family Law Act: part 3 (parentage) Section 23: (1) for all purposes of the law of BC, (a) a person is the child of his or her parents (b) a child’s parent is the person determined under this part to be a child’s parent and (c) the relationship of parent and child and kindred relationships flowing from that relationship must be as determined under this Part Section 24: Donor not automatically parent Section 25: If child is adopted and sections 26-30 of this act do not apply, the child’s parents are set out in the Adoption Act. Section 26: If no assisted reproduction then parents are birth mother and biological father. (3) if more than one person may be presumed ot be a child’s bio daddy, no presumption of paternity, (2) male person is presumed unless contrary in (3) in the following circumstances: (a) Married to the child’s mother on the day of the child’s birth (b) Married to the child’s mother and within 300 days before the child birth, marriage ended by death, divorce or s. 21 (void or voidable marriages. (c) married the child’s brith mother after the child’s birth and acknowledges that he is the father (d) living with the child’s birth mother in a marriage-like relationship within 300 days before or on the day of the child’s birth (e) he with the child’s mother signed statement under s. 3 of the Vital Statistics Act acknowledging he is the father (f) he acknowledged that he is the father by signing an agreement under s. 20 of the Child Paternity and Support Act. Section 27: Assisted Reproduction Section 29: Surrogacy Arrangement
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