Chelsea Hooper

The parties separated in 2016 after a short marriage.

The father had primary care and sole decision-making responsibility for their 9-year-old daughter for seven years following an incident where the mother surreptitiously removed the child to Winnipeg while experiencing mental health struggles.

The mother sought increased parenting time and joint decision-making responsibility.

The court found it was in the child's best interests to increase the mother's parenting time to 6 overnights out of 14 days, creating a shared parenting arrangement.

Due to high conflict and poor communication, the court ordered a parallel parenting regime where the parents must consult, but the mother has final say on health decisions and the father has final say on education and extra-curriculars.

The mother was also ordered to pay $12,136 in retroactive child support and ongoing set-off child support of $114 per month.

The applicant father brought a motion for a temporary shared parenting plan on a 2-2-3 schedule for the parties' two young children.

The respondent mother opposed the motion, seeking to maintain a schedule with no overnight parenting time, relying on uncorroborated allegations of family violence.

The court found that the father had historically shared parenting responsibilities and that the mother's unilateral termination of overnight access was not justified by the evidence.

The court granted the motion, ordering a phased-in 2-2-3 shared parenting schedule and shared decision-making.

In a high-conflict family law proceeding, both parties brought motions regarding parenting and access to their two teenage children.

The applicant father sought to enforce access and mandate therapy, while the respondent mother sought to suspend access and obtain a Voice of the Child Report.

The court dismissed the mother's motions, finding that a Voice of the Child Report would only subject the children to further manipulation given the extreme parental conflict.

The court ordered the children to continue therapy under strict non-interference conditions and directed the matter to proceed to an expedited trial.