This is a costs decision following a four-day trial regarding child support for a seven-year-old child.
The father brought two motions to change: one for joint custody and one for child support reduction.
Custody and access issues were settled on the first day of trial.
The only issue at trial was child support.
The mother, who was unrepresented, was successful on the child support claim.
The court awarded costs on a full recovery basis to the mother, finding the father engaged in unreasonable conduct including failure to provide full and timely financial disclosure, providing misleading and uncredible evidence about his income, manipulating his financial affairs to reduce his income, and refusing a reasonable settlement offer.
