The Refugee Protection Division (RPD) of the Immigration and Refugee Board makes a cessation order if it decides that a protected person no longer needs Canada's protection. A cessation order can lead to a protected person being ordered to leave Canada.
If Canada Border Services Agency applies to the RPD for a cessation order, the...
Independent legal advice (ILA) is when you get your own legal advice from a lawyer. The advice is independent because your lawyer is only working for you. A different lawyer works for the other parent or any other party.
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's changed by another decision of the court or by an agreement that you make with the Children’s Aid Society.
A protection application is when the Children’s Aid Society starts a court case against a child’s parent because they think that the child is in need of protection.
Customary care is the type of care a First Nations, Inuk, or Métis child might get if they cannot be cared for by their parents. It means the child is cared for in a way that considers their First Nations, Inuk, or Métis community’s culture, heritage, traditions, and who they see as family.
A child is in extended society care when they are in the care and custody of the Children’s Aid Society and they have to stay in their care until one of the following happens:
A child is in society care when they are in the care and custody of the Children’s Aid Society for a certain amount of time. A child cannot be in society care for more than 12 months. If CAS has to care for them longer than 12 months, they have to be in extended society care.
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:
The Children’s Aid Society (CAS) has a legal duty to make sure that children are protected from harm. The government has given them this job. In some places in Ontario, CAS is called Child and Family Services.
This is a child who has been or is at risk of being harmed because of something that their parent or caregiver has done or not done.
The law says a child is “in need of protection” only when one or more specific conditions are met. For example, it says a child might be in need of protection if at least one of the following is true:
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