Allyson Gardner

In a high-conflict family law proceeding, the court held a focused trial to determine parenting and child support issues for three children.

The court considered whether to release the two younger children from a court-ordered parenting schedule based on their views and preferences.

The court released the 16-year-old child from the schedule effective August 2022 but declined to release the 14-year-old child.

The applicant mother was granted sole decision-making authority.

The court also calculated child support and section 7 expense arrears, ordering the respondent father to pay outstanding amounts.

Ongoing child support was reduced to $1,850 per month to reflect the shared parenting arrangement and the eldest child attending university.

The applicant father and respondent mother engaged in a high-conflict parenting dispute over their 9-year-old child.

The court found that the respondent mother had engaged in severe parental alienation, resulting in the child having no contact with the applicant for over two years and exhibiting a resist-refuse dynamic.

Finding that the mother lacked insight and had sabotaged reunification efforts, the court determined it was in the child's best interests to reverse primary residence and award sole decision-making authority to the applicant father.

The respondent was ordered to pay child support based on an imputed income.

The applicant mother and respondent father engaged in a highly conflictual 27-day trial regarding custody, access, child support, and the mother's request to relocate their four children to England to live with her new husband.

The court found the father to be abusive, emotionally unstable, and unable to shield the children from his hostility towards the mother and her new husband.

The mother was awarded sole custody and permitted to move the children to England, subject to conditions including immigration approval and child protection clearance.

The father's access was ordered to be supervised initially, with a pathway to unsupervised access and extended holiday visits if the move occurs.

The father was ordered to pay child support, with a reduction upon relocation due to the undue hardship of international access costs.