What type of change is sufficient to change a custody order?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Meitine v. Grigoryan, 2019 ONSC 7193 (CanLII):
To properly examine this, we must return to what McLachlan J. stated in Gordon v. Goertz about what type of change is sufficient to change a custody order. Among other factors, she stated that the change must be “either not foreseen or could not have been reasonably contemplated by the judge who made the initial order.” For the change to be sufficient to support a motion to change, it must not have been foreseeable or not contemplated at the time of the order.
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