Catherine Reid, RSW

The applicant mother sought sole decision-making responsibility, primary residence, and supervised parenting time for the parties' five-year-old child, as well as child support.

The respondent father, who struggled with substance misuse and mental health issues, did not attend the trial.

The court granted the mother sole decision-making and primary residence, and ordered that the father's parenting time be supervised.

The court declined to impute income to the father for prospective child support due to his addiction and unstable work history, but ordered him to pay $3,114 in retroactive child support arrears.