What is the test for having an active relationship with a child?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Children’s Aid Society of the Regional Municipality of Waterloo v LW, 2013 ONCJ 760 (CanLII):
[64] Harper J. expanded on the reasoning of Spence J. in CAS v. Middlesex v. S.D., where he stated that there must be evidence of an active relationship with the child that includes care and responsibility and is something more than physical possession or limited incidents of care.
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