Annie Zhuang

The applicant mother sought to temporarily suspend or supervise the father's parenting time and requested the appointment of the Office of the Children's Lawyer.

The respondent father brought a cross-motion for contempt, alleging breaches of a prior parenting order due to the mother's intentional withholding of their son.

The court dismissed the mother's motion, finding her supporting evidence inadmissible and her actions to be self-help.

While the court found the mother intentionally breached the parenting order, it exercised its discretion not to issue a formal contempt finding, instead declaring the breach and imposing conditions to ensure future compliance, including ordering the mother to pay the father full indemnity costs.

The applicant mother was found in contempt for denying court-ordered parenting time to the respondent father for 3.5 months.

This endorsement concerns the sentencing hearing.

The court dismissed the mother's claim that she had purged her contempt, finding no mitigating factors and several aggravating factors, including a pattern of non-compliance.

The court ordered the mother to pay a suspended fine of $15,000 to the Minister of Finance, conditional on future compliance with parenting orders, and to pay the father $15,755.03 in costs on a full recovery basis due to her bad faith conduct and prior non-compliance with costs orders.