The applicant father brought an urgent motion seeking custody of the parties' two children and an order preventing their removal from Ontario.
The parties separated after the respondent mother and children moved to a women's shelter due to domestic violence concerns.
The court declined to make a custody order or alter the current residency arrangements on an emergency basis, noting the mother had surrendered the children's passports to her counsel.
The court ordered that the children primarily reside with the mother on a without prejudice basis, varied a previous non-removal order to include the Greater Toronto Area, and granted the father daily telephone or Skype access with conditions.
