S. Ettinger

The applicant mother brought a motion for sole decision-making authority, primary residence, and retroactive child support.

The court declined to make a parenting order due to insufficient evidence but ordered temporary ongoing child support based on the respondent father's new salary of $105,000.

The court declined to order retroactive support given the father's period of unemployment, and awarded the mother $650 in costs.

The applicant father sought to confirm a provisional order from Manitoba terminating his child support obligation for his adult son.

The mother opposed, arguing the son remained a child of the marriage due to post-secondary studies and medical issues.

The court found the son ceased to be a child of the marriage after high school, but re-qualified during an 18-month period of post-secondary education.

The provisional order was confirmed with a variation, terminating support temporarily, reinstating it during the son's studies, and then terminating it permanently.