The applicant father brought an urgent motion for the resumption of unsupervised parenting time and joint decision-making responsibility for the parties' eight-year-old child, having not seen the child since December 2020.
The respondent mother opposed unsupervised time, citing COVID-19 concerns and the father's past physical abuse of the child when she was an infant.
The court found that while the past abuse was highly concerning, the mother had previously allowed unsupervised access knowing of the abuse, and the passage of eight years mitigated the risk.
The court ordered unsupervised parenting time in accordance with a 2017 mediation agreement, joint decision-making with the mother having final say, and interim child support.
