The applicant father sought sole decision-making authority to vaccinate the parties' 13-year-old child against COVID-19.
The respondent mother opposed the motion, relying on a doctor's note and the child's expressed wish not to be vaccinated.
The court took judicial notice of the safety and efficacy of the vaccine and found that the child's views were not independent but influenced by the mother and her retained doctor.
The court granted the father sole decision-making authority for the vaccine and ordered the mother not to provide the child with anti-vaccine information.
