The applicant mother sought an order restricting the respondent father to supervised parenting time due to his Bipolar 1 Affective Disorder, following two manic episodes that occurred during the separation.
The father sought unsupervised parenting time and decision-making responsibility over the children's sports activities, proposing a comprehensive safety plan designed by his treating psychiatrist.
The court found that the father was currently mentally healthy and that restricting him to supervised parenting time would be improperly based on the stigma of his mental health condition.
The court ordered a graduated schedule of unsupervised parenting time with the implementation of the safety plan, and ordered a parallel parenting regime granting the father final decision-making responsibility for sports and the mother final decision-making for health, education, and religion.
