Following trial in a family law dispute, the court rejected the applicant father's request that the children relocate from Toronto to the UAE and found that sole decision-making and primary residence with the mother remained in the children's best interests.
The court accepted evidence of family violence, the children's trauma-related diagnoses, and the father's lack of insight into the causes of the estrangement, and held that any parenting time should occur only in accordance with the children's wishes on reasonable notice.
Using the applicant's 2022 income, the court fixed ongoing child support, retroactive support arrears, section 7 arrears, and high-range indefinite spousal support.
On property, the court held the Islamic Mahr was an enforceable contractual debt that had to be included in equalization calculations and declined to order an unequal division under s. 5(6) of the Family Law Act.
