Following the breakdown of a ten‑year marriage, the parties proceeded to trial regarding custody, access, child support, spousal support, and equalization of net family property.
Evidence established that the father exhibited significant paranoid ideation and suspicious behaviour affecting his parenting and relationship with the children, while refusing recommended psychological treatment.
The court accepted the Office of the Children’s Lawyer’s concerns that these behaviours negatively affected the children and blurred appropriate parent‑child boundaries.
Sole custody was granted to the mother, with reduced and conditional access for the father contingent on psychotherapy and subject to possible supervision by the Office of the Children’s Lawyer.
The court also addressed equalization, child support obligations, and dismissed the father’s claim for spousal support.