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Family law 2025 BCSC 2675

N.D.A. v. A.N.P.

The court granted the father's relocation application, ordering the children to live with him in Calgary and setting parenting-time and decision-making terms.

  • Relocation under family law act
  • Best interests of the child
  • Parenting time schedule
  • Parental decision‑making
  • Evidence and witness selection
  • Family-law
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Family law 2024 NSSC 151

D.B. v. S.D.

The father's unilateral denial of the mother's contact after the May 16, 2022 Consent Order constituted a material change in circumstances and amounted to parental alienation; on a fresh best interests inquiry the child’s primary care and residence, and decision-making authority, were placed with the mother, with specified parenting time to the father and child support ordered from the father to the mother.

  • Change in circumstances
  • Parenting arrangements
  • Decision-making authority
  • Parental alienation
  • Best interests of the child
  • Credibility findings
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Family law 2024 BCSC 908

J.L.M. v. G.G.M.

The court decided a high-conflict parenting dispute, admitted Soberlink reports as business records, ordered continued BAC monitoring, and appointed a parenting coordinator.

  • Best interests of the child
  • Guardianship
  • Parenting time allocation
  • Bac monitoring / soberlink admissibility
  • Parenting coordinator appointment
  • Business records exception to hearsay
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Family law 2023 BCSC 2086

L.L.W. v. D.P.D.

The court enforced a 2019 oral child-support agreement, fixed arrears at $16,600, set ongoing support at $1,031 monthly, and ordered disclosure and costs.

  • Retroactive child support
  • Arrears
  • Guideline income determination
  • Section 7 special and extraordinary expenses
  • Financial disclosure
  • Parenting time
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Family law 2023 BCSC 1530

M.P. v. P.P.

Interim parenting orders were varied to increase the respondent’s time gradually, with shared parental responsibilities ordered and requests for final decision-making, exchange changes, address disclosure, and fines dismissed.

  • Parenting time/schedule
  • Parental decision-making
  • Parenting exchanges/supervision
  • Disclosure of address
  • Compensatory parenting time
  • Fines for wrongful withholding
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Family law 2023 NSSC 171

R.H. v. A.L.S.

On the balance of probabilities the child’s best interests are served by remaining in the father's primary care and residence because the father provides greater stability and conciliatory communication, the mother’s practices and unresolved conduct raised credible risk to the child’s welfare and the parties cannot reliably cooperate; joint decision-making is unworkable so the father is appointed sole decision-maker.

  • Parenting time
  • Primary care vs shared custody
  • Decision-making responsibility
  • Best interests of the child
  • Communication protocols
  • Travel with child
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Family law 2022 BCSC 2190

McDonald v. Leppanen

The court denied a mother's relocation request to move a child from Comox to Qualicum Beach, finding the move was not shown to be in the child's best interests.

  • Best interests of the child
  • Section 46 relocation
  • Section 37 best interests factors
  • Parenting arrangements
  • Misuse of process / s.221
  • Child-relocation
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Family law 2022 BCSC 205

C.M. v. M.N.

Family law trial on child support, s. 7 expenses, property division, and spousal support. The court reapportioned corporate property 60/40 to M.N. and set support orders.

  • Child support guidelines
  • Section 7 expenses
  • Excluded property
  • Reapportionment of family property
  • Guidelines income adjustments (rrsp, capital gains, farm losses)
  • Spousal support advisory guidelines
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Family law 2021 BCSC 2588

C.A.U. v. E.L.K.H.

On a family law application, the court ordered a gradual move to equal parenting time, set prospective child support, and dismissed retroactive child and spousal support claims.

  • Best interests of the child
  • Equal parenting time
  • Retroactive child support
  • Imputing income
  • S. 211 report
  • Views of the child
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Family law 2019 BCSC 2107

Y.A. v. M.N.

The court varied prior family orders to adopt equal shared parenting, imputed income to the respondent, and ordered retroactive child support and s. 7 expenses.

  • Material change in circumstances
  • Best interests of the child (fla s.37)
  • Section 211 report
  • Imputing income (federal guidelines s.19)
  • Section 7 expenses
  • Conduct orders
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