The applicant grandmother brought a motion for alternate weekend access to her five-and-a-half-year-old grandchild.
The respondent mother brought a cross-motion to dismiss the grandmother's pleadings and leave contact to her discretion, having cut off contact a year prior.
The child's father was incarcerated and not involved.
The court dismissed the mother's motion, finding triable issues.
Applying the Chapman framework, the court found a longstanding positive relationship existed between the grandmother and child, which the mother arbitrarily imperiled over a dispute regarding service of litigation documents.
The court ordered temporary contact of two full Saturdays per month to gently reintegrate the grandmother into the child's life.
