The applicant mother sought to prevent the respondent grandparents from taking their eight-year-old grandchild on a vacation to Disneyworld during their court-ordered summer access, refusing to provide a passport or travel consent.
The mother also brought an oral motion for the judge's recusal, arguing that the judge had previously recused himself from a similar vacation request.
The court dismissed the recusal motion, finding no reasonable apprehension of bias as the current issue was enforcement of an existing order, not a variation.
The court granted the grandparents' motion, finding their travel plans were within their existing access rights and in the child's best interests, despite the mother's concerns about abduction, abuse, and her desire to be the one to take the child to Disneyworld.
The mother was ordered to provide the child's passport, failing which the grandparents could obtain it.
