Law360 Canada ( July 21, 2022, 6:24 AM EDT) -- Appeal by father from dismissal of his application for variation of 2016 order. The father’s increased parenting time, access by the paternal grandparents and the child’s surname were the focus of the appeal. The parents, who were not married, separated approximately two months after the child was born. The child was now eight years old. There was currently a parenting order in place. The father applied for a variation of the 2016 order. Having found that there was no material change in circumstances, the judge dismissed the father’s application. The father submitted that the 2016 Order expired four years after it was made, pointing to the fact that the order specified “Recommendations Only” for the period after four years. If the 2016 Order had expired, the father submitted that the requirement for a material change in circumstances did not apply because there was no order in place to vary....