The Divorce Act defines decision-making responsibility as responsibility for making significant decisions about a child’s well-being, including the child’s health, education, culture, language, religion and spirituality, and significant extra-curricular activities. Only a parent with parenting time can also have decision-making responsibility. However, a parent with parenting time may not have decision-making responsibility. For example, one parent may have parenting time every other weekend but no decision-making responsibility. That parent would not be able to make big decisions about the child, such as where they go to school or whether they play sports. Day-to-day decisions refer to any daily decisions made for a child, such as food, bedtime, daily activities, etc. The Divorce Act does not define the term. However, the Act does say that a parent who has parenting time can make day-to-day decisions for the child during that parent’s parenting time, unless the court orders otherwise. Last Reviewed: March 2021