Both parents brought urgent motions seeking temporary custody of their young daughter.
The mother sought sole or shared custody with an alcohol prohibition on the father.
The father sought sole custody with limited access for the mother and restrictions on her new partner and father.
The court found that the father had not established urgency based on his allegations regarding the mother's stability and her new partner's safety concerns.
The court determined that the father's evidence was insufficient, inconsistent, and contradicted by his own text messages, which revealed his true motivations were financial and related to anger over the mother's new relationship.
The court found that the father had engaged in self-help by unilaterally terminating a previously agreed-upon shared parenting arrangement in March 2020 without justification.
The court awarded interim sole custody to the mother with regular and liberal access to the father, finding that the father's conduct demonstrated he would not facilitate the mother's relationship with the child if given custody.
