{"id":50660,"date":"2022-08-25T20:21:54","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T00:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orders.cleo.on.ca\/?post_type=publications-page&#038;p=50660"},"modified":"2025-06-17T12:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T16:54:07","slug":"what-is-decision-making-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"publications-page","link":"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\/publications-page\/what-is-decision-making-responsibility","title":{"rendered":"What is decision-making responsibility?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decision-making responsibility is the right to make important decisions about how to care for and raise a child. It includes the right to make decisions about a child&#8217;s education, health care, religion, and important extracurricular activities.<\/p>\n<p>Decision-making responsibility used to be called custody.<\/p>\n<p>Decision-making responsibility is not about who your child lives with. It is also not about how much time your child spends with each parent.<\/p>\n<p>Decision-making responsibility can be divided in a few ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One parent has all the decision-making responsibility.<\/li>\n<li>Parents share decision-making responsibility and need to agree on important decisions.<\/li>\n<li>Parents have decision-making responsibility for different things. For example, one parent may have decision-making responsibility for education and another parent for health care.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sharing decision-making responsibility can work well if parents can communicate and work together. If your partner is abusive or controlling, they might want to share decision-making responsibility so they can use it to try and control you. You do not have to agree to this.<\/p>\n<p>If you have all the decision-making responsibility for your children, your partner usually has the right to ask for, and get, information about their children&#8217;s health, education, and well-being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-50660","publications-page","type-publications-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What is decision-making responsibility? - CLEO (Community Legal Education Ontario \/ \u00c9ducation juridique communautaire Ontario)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\/publications-page\/what-is-decision-making-responsibility\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What is decision-making responsibility? - CLEO (Community Legal Education Ontario \/ \u00c9ducation juridique communautaire Ontario)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Decision-making responsibility is the right to make important decisions about how to care for and raise a child. 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