On interim family-law applications, the court appointed a s. 211 assessor, continued counselling for the child, enforced parenting-coordination orders, and ordered compensatory parenting time.
Family-law chambers decision on child support, exchange location, and counselling. The court retroactively reduced support, credited overpayments, and set future support at $917 monthly.
The court dismissed a parentâs application for a s. 211 report and counselling for a young child, finding no family violence and no evidentiary basis for intervention.
The court ordered team-based counselling for a child, held a parenting coordinator could not choose the therapy regime, and gave limited weight to the childâs wishes.
Counselling for child
Parenting coordinator jurisdiction
Best interests of the child
Parental decisionâmaking
Nonâdisclosure of medical/mental health information
On the balance of probabilities the child's best interests required joint custody with primary care to the mother because the parents live proximate, both are capable parents but the mother demonstrated greater availability and willingness to organize the child's daily life; this supports predictability and stability. The court ordered the specific interim parenting schedule, mandatory counselling, information-sharing and parenting consultation, required respondent to pay table child support of $507 per month commencing September 15, 2013 based on an agreed income of $60,000, and found no entâŚ
The court varied child support after finding the children spent substantial time with the mother, cancelled some months, reduced ongoing support, and addressed s. 7 expenses.