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Mother granted sole decision-making responsibility and child support in uncontested trial due to father's alcohol issues.
The applicant mother brought an application for sole decision-making responsibility, parenting time, and child support.
The respondent father failed to respond, and the matter proceeded as an uncontested trial.
The court granted the mother sole decision-making responsibility and primary residence, citing concerns about the father's alcohol addiction and stability.
The father was granted parenting time subject to conditions, including abstaining from alcohol, and was ordered to pay child support based on an imputed income.
Interim mobility request denied because relocation would unduly disrupt the children's stability.
On an interim mobility motion, the moving party sought permission to relocate with three children to Perth to live with her mother.
The court held that where custody and access remained genuinely in issue for trial, it should be reluctant to disrupt the existing parallel-parenting status quo.
Applying the best-interests framework from Gordon v. Goertz, the court found the proposed move would significantly disrupt the children's schooling, daycare, friendships, and community stability at a time of parental breakup.
The motion was denied, and no costs were ordered.
