Dan Egarhos

The applicant father sought shared decision-making, a shared parenting schedule, child support, spousal support, and an equalization payment, challenging the validity of the parties' prenuptial agreement.

The respondent mother sought sole decision-making, primary residence, child support based on imputed income, and validation of the prenuptial agreement.

The court granted the mother sole decision-making due to findings of family violence and maintained her primary residence of the child.

The court imputed an income of $50,000 to the father due to intentional underemployment, ordered retroactive and ongoing child support, dismissed his spousal support claim, and upheld the prenuptial agreement.

Five bellwether individual issues trials were heard as summary judgment motions to determine whether class members who were placed in administrative segregation in federal penitentiaries were entitled to additional compensatory damages beyond their share of the aggregate damages award.

The court assessed the idiosyncratic harm suffered by each plaintiff, taking into account their pre-existing mental health conditions and other stressors.

The court awarded additional compensatory damages to three plaintiffs ($50,000, $25,000, and $75,000) who proved that their time in segregation caused specific, additional harm.

The claims of the other two plaintiffs were dismissed as they failed to prove causation.

The court declined to award punitive damages in any of the cases.

The applicant mother sought to permanently relocate to Vienna, Austria with the parties' four-year-old child.

The respondent father opposed the relocation and sought sole custody.

The mother had previously withheld the child in Vienna, resulting in a Hague Convention order for the child's return.

The court applied the Gordon v. Goertz framework and found that relocation was not in the child's best interests, as it would severely disrupt the child's relationship with the father.

The court granted sole custody to the father with a 50/50 shared parenting schedule, finding the mother had repeatedly used the child as leverage and restricted the father's access.

The court also imputed minimum wage income to the mother for the purposes of calculating child and spousal support, and ordered spousal support to terminate in January 2019.