The mother brought a motion to change the father's access to their two children from unsupervised to supervised, and to dispense with his consent for the children to travel outside Canada.
The father brought a cross-motion seeking to use his share of the matrimonial home's sale proceeds to pay his criminal defence costs.
The court dismissed the mother's request for supervised access, finding no exceptional circumstances to justify restricting the father's access, but ordered that access exchanges occur through a third party or supervised access centre to minimize conflict.
The court granted the mother permission to travel with the children subject to notice requirements.
The father's request to use the sale proceeds for his legal defence was dismissed, as the funds were needed to secure his future child support obligations.
