Glossary - Abuse and Family Violence
In Abuse and Family Violence, Family Law, Housing Law, Tribunals and Courts
A summons is a legal document that requires a witness to come to a trial or a hearing on a specific date to tell their part of the story.
In Abuse and Family Violence, Family Law
The new term for supervised access is supervised parenting time for most family law cases. If you have a child protection case, the term supervised access may still be used.
Supervised parenting time is a kind of parenting time when someone else watches a parent’s visits with their child. This might be another relative like the child’s grandparent or uncle, or it might be someone from an agency like the Children’s Aid Society. The purpose of supervised parenting time is usually to make sure the child is safe.
In Abuse and Family Violence, Family Law
A supervised access exchange is when someone watches a parent pick up or drop off the child, but does not watch the access visit. Its purpose is usually to reduce conflict between the parents, or to protect one parent from being abused by the other parent.
In Abuse and Family Violence, Child abuse and neglect, Family Law
A supervision order is when the court decides that your child can live with you, another parent, or a caregiver, but that the Children’s Aid Society has to regularly check that your child is being cared for.
A supervision order can last between 3 and 12 months. And it can include a number of conditions, such as you:
- get tested for drugs regularly
- go for counselling
- go to parenting classes
In Abuse and Family Violence, Child abuse and neglect, Family Law
A temporary care and custody hearing is a court process where the court decides what should happen to your child while your case is still going on. What the court decides at this hearing has to be followed until it is changed by another decision of the court or by an agreement that you make with the Children’s Aid Society.
