This decision addresses the costs of a contempt motion brought by the applicant grandmother against the respondent father for failing to return their child as per a court order.
The court had previously found the father in contempt.
In this endorsement, the court determined that the father's actions, including withholding information about the child's whereabouts and unilaterally setting return conditions, constituted bad faith.
Applying Family Law Rule 24(8), the court ordered the father to pay costs on a full recovery basis, fixed at $5,000, to be paid immediately.
