The court delivered a costs endorsement following cross-motions for temporary parenting orders.
The applicant mother sought full recovery costs of $8,434.44, and the respondent father sought $9,856.23.
The court found the mother to be the more successful party on the dominant issues of the child's primary residence and school.
The father's conduct, including overholding the child and denying in-person parenting time, was deemed unreasonable, though not in bad faith.
The mother was also found to have acted unreasonably by not making a formal offer to settle after initiating the case.
Considering the importance of the case, the reasonableness of counsel's time, and the father's ability to pay, the court ordered the father to pay the mother $5,000 in costs, inclusive of fees, disbursements, and HST, dismissing the father's costs request.
