“Decision-making responsibility” refers to a parent’s authority to make decisions about the child such as educational decisions, non-emergency medical decisions, religious decisions, and extracurricular activity decisions.  The non-decision-making parent does not have the right to make or be involved in making choices affecting the child’s welfare and development, even if they have parenting time with the child.  If an emergency arises or when the decision-making parent is unavailable, a non-decision-making parent may exercise some restricted decision-making authority.   “Parenting time” has replaced the word “access”; think visiting with the child as distinct from making decisions concerning the child.   “Parenting time” refers to a child’s right to visit with or be visited by their parents.  Recall that the test is “in the best interests of the child.”  Parents often confuse this concept thinking and saying, to the annoyance of many judges, that it is their right to see their child.  This is inaccurate:  the right belongs to the child to see, know and bond with their non-residential parent so as to develop a balanced relationship with both parents.      Parenting time in Brampton also includes the parent’s right to inquire about and receive information about the child’s health, education, and welfare from the parent with decision making responsibility or from the children’s third-party caregivers and supporters.