Tracy Ross

The applicant sought relief pertaining to custody, access, child support, health and dental coverage, life insurance, financial disclosure, and a child's name change.

The respondent failed to file responding materials, leading to an uncontested trial.

The court granted joint custody with primary residence to the applicant, imputed income to the respondent for child support, ordered shared Section 7 expenses, health and dental coverage, and allowed the child's name change.

Costs were awarded to the applicant.

The applicants sought child support from the respondent parents for E.G., who was 18 years old at the time of trial and had been living with Janet McGonegal since March 2011 when she was 16.

The applicants sought retroactive child support from April 1, 2011, ongoing child support, and coverage of extraordinary expenses for E.G.'s continued education.

The respondents argued that E.G. had voluntarily withdrawn from their parental control at age 16 and therefore were not obligated to provide support under section 31(2) of the Family Law Act.

The court found that E.G. had withdrawn from parental control voluntarily and that the withdrawal was not involuntary.

The application was dismissed in its entirety.

The applicant mother sought sole custody of the child Parker, born January 27, 2011, to the parties who separated in May 2011.

The respondent father sought joint custody with the mother as primary caregiver and regular access.

The parties reached an impasse regarding access: the mother insisted on supervised access while the father demanded unsupervised access.

After 11 months without contact, the mother sought to terminate the father's access rights entirely.

The court determined that it was in the child's best interests to establish a relationship with his father through a gradual, supervised reintroduction process.