What is the test for contempt of a parent's access order?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Paftali v. Paftali, 2020 ONSC 5325 (CanLII):
In Godard v. Godard, there was a court order providing the father with access every second weekend to the parties’ 12-year-old daughter. After having been denied any contact with his daughter for some time, the father brought a contempt motion against the mother. The motion judge found the mother in contempt of the access order, finding that the mother had “effectively abdicated her parental authority on the issue of access.”[32]
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