Does a criminal peace bond automatically affect a parallel family court parenting case?

Not automatically — a peace bond is a criminal court order, and a family court dealing with parenting time and decision-making responsibility doesn't have to adopt its conditions or treat it as binding in the family case. That said, a peace bond, and the facts that led to it, can be highly relevant evidence in the family proceeding: a family court will typically want to know about it and will consider what it says about family violence and safety risk as part of the best-interests-of-the-child analysis, even though the two orders operate independently.

In practice, parties in this situation often try to align the terms of a family court order with an existing peace bond to avoid conflicting conditions, but a family court can craft parenting or contact conditions that differ from the peace bond, based on the specific evidence before it, including the child's needs. Anyone with both a peace bond and an active family court case should make sure their family lawyer knows about it and its terms early, so the two proceedings can be coordinated rather than working at cross purposes.