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Costs of $10,000 awarded to successful applicant on parenting motion after respondents unreasonably withheld child.
The applicant was completely successful on an urgent motion for a parenting order after the respondent biological parents withheld the child from him.
The applicant sought costs of $20,000.
The respondents argued for no costs due to limited financial means.
The court found the respondents acted unreasonably by withholding the child and pursuing an ill-informed theory that only biological parents should have parenting time.
The court fixed costs at $10,000, payable $5,000 by each respondent, with a payment plan for the mother.
Interim parenting time granted to non-biological psychological father over objections of biological parents.
The applicant, who raised the child as his own for the first year of the child's life, sought an urgent interim parenting order after a DNA test revealed he was not the biological father.
The biological mother and the newly identified biological father opposed the applicant having any parenting time, arguing the child should only have two parents.
The court rejected the biological parents' position, finding that the applicant was the child's psychological father and primary caregiver post-separation.
Applying the best interests factors under the Children's Law Reform Act, the court granted the applicant alternating weeks of parenting time.
