Joanne Beasley

The respondent brought a motion to vary an interim access order, seeking reduced and supervised access for the applicant, citing an alleged sexual assault of a child by a neighbour and criminal charges laid against the applicant.

The applicant opposed the reduction and supervision, agreeing only to access at his mother's residence.

The court dismissed the respondent's motion, finding no basis to change the original order, and expressed skepticism regarding the respondent's allegations and the timing of the criminal charges.

The court found the applicant's report to CAS appropriate and maintained the original access schedule with minor modifications regarding exchange locations.

The respondent mother brought an urgent motion for child support for her three children from the applicant father, citing financial hardship due to COVID-19 related job loss.

The court found the matter urgent.

The mother requested support based on the father's historical income of $82,000, while the father argued for a lower income due to current employment restrictions and sought to delay payments to prioritize matrimonial home debts.

The court determined the father's annualized income for child support purposes to be $50,000, based on current earnings and future employment limitations, and ordered him to pay $977 monthly child support commencing May 1, 2020, prioritizing child support over matrimonial home debts.

The applicant father brought a motion seeking frequent overnight access to the parties' two-year-old child.

The respondent mother opposed the motion, arguing it was premature and should await the completion of the Office of the Children's Lawyer report.

The court found that both parties were loving parents and that many of the mother's concerns were unwarranted or based on speculation.

The court granted the father interim overnight access every second weekend, finding that overnight visits were in the child's best interests and long overdue, pending the release of the report.