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Family law 2024 BCSC 756

Dosanjh v. Sandhu

The court found the respondent wrongfully withheld parenting time, rejected defences under s. 62, and imposed a $2,500 fine plus costs.

  • Wrongful withholding of parenting time
  • Enforcement fines under section 61
  • Defences under section 62(1)(c) and (f)
  • Best interests of the child
  • Family-law
  • Parenting-time
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Family law 2024 BCSC 587

A.N. v. A.M.N.

The court found repeated breaches of conduct and parenting orders, imposed $100,000 fines for each category, denied legal-fee reimbursement under s. 230, and awarded special costs.

  • Conduct orders
  • Parental alienation
  • Fines under family law act ss.228 and 61(2)(g)
  • Special costs
  • Recovery of legal fees under s.230
  • Family-law
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Family law 2024 BCCA 36

Wong v. Tersigni

Appeal and cross-appeal from a parenting-time variation were dismissed. The Court found no material error, serious misapprehension, or basis for appellate вмешательство.

  • Parenting time
  • Consent order variation
  • Standard of review
  • Best interests of the child
  • Cross-appeal
  • Parenting-time
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Family law 2023 NSSC 254

Rashid v. Nisar

Because the relocation was consented to and is in the child's best interests, and because requiring the mother to bear all increased travel would be unsafe, burdensome and punitive, the court ordered that the increased transportation burden be approximately equally shared with specified exchange points; a temporal exception applies where the mother’s relocation was for personal, not employment, reasons.

  • Relocation
  • Parenting time exchanges
  • Best interests of the child
  • Allocation of travel burden
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Family law 2023 BCSC 1249

Shapiro v. Shapiro

The court dismissed a contempt application over parenting time, finding the order ambiguous on Jewish holidays and no intentional withholding or fostering of resistance.

  • Parenting time enforcement
  • Contempt
  • Ambiguity of court order
  • Child resistance to parenting time
  • Costs
  • Parenting-time-enforcement
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Family law 2020 BCSC 226

S.M.C. v. C.B.

The court dismissed an application to enroll a child in private pre-kindergarten and vary an equal-parenting schedule, but ordered limited financial and trust disclosure.

  • Variation of interim order
  • Best interests of the child
  • Trust disclosure by beneficiaries
  • Production of commercial records
  • Guidelines income determination
  • Enrollment in pre-kindergarten
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Family law 2018 BCSC 2290

B.K. v. J.B.

The court varied an interim parenting order to allow gradual overnight parenting time, but refused out-of-province travel and some other requested changes.

  • Variation of interim order
  • Best interests of the child
  • Leave under s.221 fla
  • Material change/new evidence
  • Parenting time transition plan
  • Child health (cvs)
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Family law 2016 BCSC 773

S.S. v. K.B.

The court dismissed an application to vary an interim parenting schedule, finding the affidavit conflicts too serious for summary relief and leaving the issue for trial.

  • Variation of interim order
  • Best interests of the child
  • Views of the child
  • Evidence and credibility
  • Family violence
  • Family-law
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Family law 2014 BCSC 401

Ferguson v. Ferguson

The court granted limited interim parenting time on an alternating weekday and weekend schedule, refused immediate shared parenting, and declined to appoint a parenting coordinator.

  • Interim access
  • Best interests of the child
  • Alternate caregiver clause
  • Parenting coordinator
  • Judicial case conference
  • Best-interests-of-the-child
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Family law 2009 NSSC 188

Churchill v. Kennedy

Although both parties contributed to unnecessary prolongation of a matter that should have been brief and the result was one of mixed success, the respondent's position and the parties' relative circumstances, together with assertions that prolonged the proceedings without affecting the outcome, warrant an award of costs in favour of the respondent; accordingly the applicant must pay $10,000.00 in costs to the respondent.

  • Parenting time
  • Costs awards
  • Access
  • Interim consent order
  • Conduct of parties
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