The respondent father brought an urgent motion to vary a supervised access order, as the supervised access facility ceased operations due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The father sought to have family members supervise access.
The court found that the request presumptively met the test for urgency, balancing the need to facilitate the father-child relationship with the safety concerns arising from a pending criminal trial and a non-association order against the father.
The court directed the applicant mother to file responding materials and scheduled an electronic hearing to address the merits.
