Dr. Iris Jackson

The father brought a motion to change a 2007 consent order, seeking to terminate spousal support and vary child support after both children moved to his primary care.

The mother opposed the termination of spousal support, citing health issues and an inability to find full-time work, and sought retroactive child support based on the father's significantly increased income.

The court imputed an income of $50,000 to the mother, finding her intentionally under-employed, and ordered her to pay child support and reimburse the father for overpayments.

The court also ordered the father to pay retroactive child support for 2015-2016, and ordered that spousal support step down and terminate in April 2019, finding the mother had been compensated for the economic disadvantages of the marriage.

The mother brought motions for contempt against the father for failing to facilitate supervised access as ordered, and for joint custody with increased access.

The father cross-moved to vary the access order, citing concerns over the mother's past drug addiction and the child's anxiety.

The court found the father in contempt for deliberately disobeying the clear terms of the access order, but suspended any penalty to allow him to purge the contempt by complying with a new schedule.

The court deferred the issue of custody to trial but ordered a gradually increasing access schedule for the mother, transitioning to unsupervised and overnight access, conditional on her providing random negative drug tests.