A. Kania

The applicant brought a motion to change a final order regarding custody and access.

The parties settled most issues, leaving the location of access exchanges and a proposed cap on section 7 expenses for the court to decide.

The court found a material change in circumstances due to escalating conflict and a peace bond against the respondent, ordering that access exchanges occur at a neutral location.

The court declined to cap the respondent's section 7 expenses, finding existing consent requirements provided sufficient protection.

The moving party father sought unsupervised overnight access to his six-year-old son, while the responding party mother brought a cross-motion for retroactive child support.

The court dismissed the mother's claim for retroactive support due to a lack of evidence regarding the father's income.

Regarding access, the court found that the mother was actively interfering with the father-son relationship and moving the goalposts for access.

The court ordered a staged access schedule, beginning with visits supervised by the paternal grandmother, and directed the parties to attend counselling.