J. Swan

The applicant father sought unsupervised parenting time and shared decision-making responsibility for the parties' young child.

The respondent mother sought sole decision-making, supervised parenting time for the father, and a final restraining order due to a history of family violence, alcohol abuse, and coercive control.

The court found the father engaged in a relentless campaign of harassment and threatening behaviour against the mother, her counsel, and various service providers.

The court granted the mother sole decision-making responsibility, ordered the father's parenting time to remain supervised indefinitely, granted a final restraining order against the father, and ordered him to pay ongoing and retroactive child support.

The respondent father brought a motion to find the applicant mother in contempt of a joint custody order and to force their 11-year-old daughter to return to her previous school.

The father alleged the mother unilaterally transferred the child to a new school for a sports program without his consent.

The court dismissed the contempt motion, finding the father was aware of the proposed change and did not object until the school year began.

The court also dismissed the request to change the child's school, noting the child's excitement and happiness at the new school and the lack of contradictory evidence from the father.