The Respondent Mother brought an urgent motion seeking a restraining order and a change to existing parenting terms, requesting primary care of the children and supervised access for the Applicant Father.
The court found the Father's anger and instability threatened the children's and Mother's welfare, noting family violence in the form of emotional and psychological abuse and coercive control.
The court granted the Mother's requests, ordering supervised parenting time for the Father, sole decision-making authority for the Mother, and a restraining order against the Father.
The court also addressed the threshold for changing a temporary consent order, finding a material change in circumstances was not strictly necessary given the order's nature, but also that the Father's escalating behavior and the birth of a new child constituted material changes.
