Kevin W. Doyle

The moving party mother brought a motion to change seeking to impose conditions on the responding party father's parenting time with their seven-year-old son, who was recently diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

The court found a material change in circumstances and ordered a temporary stay of the existing parenting order, replacing it with a gradual reintegration plan facilitated by the child's behavioural therapist.

The mother's requests for sole decision-making authority and to change the child's surname were deferred and dismissed, respectively.

On a family law motion to vary child support, the moving party sought relief based on one child of the marriage having moved into his residence and sought findings regarding arrears and support obligations during a period when both children resided with him.

The responding party brought a competing motion for retroactive adjustment of support to reflect the moving party's actual income since an earlier order.

The court varied child support retroactive to June 1, 2014 using the parties' respective incomes and the Child Support Guidelines on the basis that each party had care and control of one child.

The retroactive adjustment request was dismissed because it was brought on short notice and because such relief is generally unsuitable on an interim motion with limited evidence.

Costs were fixed in favour of the moving party.