The father brought a motion to change a 2014 final order that gave the mother sole decision-making and primary residence, with his parenting time at her discretion.
The father had almost no contact with the child for six years.
The court found a material change in circumstances and concluded that the mother had engaged in parental alienation, actively undermining the child's relationship with the father and causing the child to fear him.
The court ordered joint decision-making and implemented a temporary, stepped parenting time schedule that transitions to week-about shared parenting, while declining to order police enforcement at this stage.
