Law360 Canada ( June 26, 2025, 1:23 PM EDT) -- Appeal by appellant (Father) against a decision awarding primary care to respondent (Mother). Following the breakdown of the parties’ marriage, they initially shared equal parenting time for their two children. However, the children remained solely with the father due to unsubstantiated allegations of sexual abuse against the mother’s boyfriend. This led to the mother having limited contact with the children for nearly a year, prompting her to initiate court proceedings under the Divorce Act to re-establish her relationship with the children. The trial judge found it was in the children’s best interests to be placed in the primary care of their mother to foster meaningful relationships with both parents. On appeal, the father argued that the trial judge erred in placing the children in the mother’s primary care, failed to give proper weight to the evidence, and made findings not supported by the evidence. He contended that the trial judge’s treatment of the counselling notes, which allegedly demonstrated trauma related to the mother’s care, was inadequate. The mother, on the other hand, asserted that the father was not complying with interim orders aimed at reuniting her with the children and that the trial judge’s decision was in the children’s best interests....