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RAS HAWN DOUGLAS WILLIAMS , Petitioner/Appellee
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J UANA DELIA ORNELEAS FLORES , Respondent/Appellant

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No. 1 CA- CV 19 -0636 FC

A ppeal from the Superior Court in Maricopa County No. FC 2013-053306 FC2016-008419 (Consolidated) The Honorable Lisa Ann VandenBerg
, Judge

AFFIRMED

COUNSEL

RaShawn D. Williams, Surprise Petitioner/Appellee

Jun a Flores
, Phoenix Respondent/Appellant FILED 6-2-2020WILLIAMS v. FLORES Decision of the Court

2 MEMORANDUM DECISION
Judge Jennifer M. Perkins delivered the decision of the Court, in which Presiding Judge David D. Weinzweig and Judge James B. Mor se Jr. joined.

P E R K I N S , Judge:

¶1 Juana Flores (“Mother”) appeals the trial court’s denial of her Petition to Modify Parenting Time. W e affirm.

FAC T UAL AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

¶2 Mother and Rashawn Williams (“Father”) had one child together, K.W, born in 2012

. Mother and Father never married and had li mited contact with each other before K.W.’s birth. In 2013, Father petitioned for a paternity test, child custody, parenting time, and child support in Maricopa County. At trial, both parents agreed that Father was the biological father of K.W. The court then transferred and consolidated the case with a p arallel paternity case in Santa Cruz County. The Santa Cruz County Superior Court issued an order granting joint legal decision

making and a schedule for overnight stays for K.W. with Father.

¶3 Mother took K.W. and absconded to Mexico in 2014

. Father report ed K.W. missing to Nogales Police, the U.S. State Department, and the FBI. T he Santa Cruz County Superior Court then entered a n order awarding Father full legal decision

- making of K.W

. and denying Mother parenting time . In 2015, authorities located K.W. in Mexico and a Mexican court reunified K.W. and Father. Mother returned to the United States that same year.
¶4 In 2017, after the case was transferred back to Maricopa County, the court modified the 2015 decree

. The 2017 o rder reaf firmed Father ’s sole legal decision

- making and physical custody of K.W.
, finding that substantial contact between Mother and K.W. would endanger the child

. Before allowing visits with K.W., the court required Mother to undergo a psychological evaluation, followed by a therapeutic intervention at Mother’s expense. The court ordered all of Mother’s parenting time to be through the therapeutic intervention process , and the appointed interventionist would have discretion to determine contact between K.W. and Mo ther

. The court further ordered that if therapeutic interventionWILLIAMS v. FLORES Decision of the Court

3 services were interrupted or suspended over Mother’s inability to pay, Mother would have sixty days to catch up or have the services discontinued. Upon discontinuation of services, Mother would have to petition the court to reinstate services.

¶5 Between January 2017 and April 2018, the appointed therapeutic interventionist provided five updates to the court and began the intervention process. But in A ugust 2018 the interventionist ’s sixth report revealed no appointments and no payments in that four

- month period. The fifth and sixth reports suggest services stopped short of meetings between Mother and K.W. because Mother’s pending criminal charges could abruptly interfere with services

. The record contains no further therapeutic intervention appointments or reports

. ¶6 Mother petitioned in November 2018 to replace therapeutic intervention with supervised visitation. The court denied t he petition without a hearing

. Mother again moved to establish supervised visitation twice in 2019, to no avail. Mother appealed the first denial, which we dismissed after M other failed to obtain an order containing Arizona Rule of Family Law Procedure 78(c) language. Mother did not petition to reinstitute therapeutic intervention services.

¶7 In late 2019, Mother petitioned to modify parenting time for a third time

. She again asked the court to permit supervised visitation without therapeutic intervention, which the superior court again denied without a hearing. In explaining its denial, the court noted Mother’s petition did not allege any change in circumstances warrant ing a modification. Mother timely appealed from this latest denial.

DISCUSSION

¶8 We review a trial court’s denial of a petition to m odify p arenting t ime for abuse of discretion. Pridgeon v. Superior Ct. , 134 Ariz. 177, 179 (1982). We vi ew the evidence in the light most favorable to sustaining the family court’s decision

. Hurd v. Hurd , 223 Ariz. 48, 52, ¶ 19 (App. 2009).

¶9 In considering a petition to modify parenting time , a court must first consider whether a change in circumstances has occurred

. Pridgeon , 134 Ariz. at 179; see also Engstrom v. McCarthy , 243 Ariz. 469, 472, ¶ 10 (App. 2018). “A trial court has broad discretion to determine whether a change of circumstances has occurred. ” Pridgeon , 134 Ariz. at 179. A court must then determine if th at change constitutes a “material change in circumstances affecting the welfare of the child.” Vincent v. Nelson , 238 Ariz.WILLIAMS v. FLORES Decision of the Court

4 150, 155, ¶¶ 16

– 17 (App. 2015) (quoting Canty v. Canty , 178 Ariz. 443, 448 (App. 1994)).

¶10 Mother did not allege a change in circumstances since the last order that materially impact s K.W.’s best interests

. See Pridgeon , 134 Ariz. at 181– 82 (noting the one filing a motion bears the statutory burden of showing adequate cause for a hearing); see also Canty v. Canty , 178 Ariz. 443, 448 (App. 1994). She instead ask ed the court to modify the o rder because she wa s unwilling and financially unabl e to continue with court mandated therapeutic intervention. T he court in its 2017 o rder placed the onus on Mother to comply with and pay for a therapeutic intervention plan. The order contemplated that Mother might be unable to pay with a 60- day cure period before therapeutic intervention would be terminated

. And the court provided a mechanism for Mother to reinstitute that process by petitioning the court. Mother did not meet the terms of the ord er and did not appeal that order. The court did not abuse its discretion in finding no change in circumstances supported modification of parenting time.

¶11 Mother claims that the court erred by den ying her petition without giving her the benefit of a hearing. But a court need not hold a hearing before denying a petition seeking only to modify parenting time. In general, a parent seeking modification of a legal decision

- making or parenting

- time order must provide evidence to support the proposed change, and if the parent demonstrat es “adequate cause” the court must hold a hearing. A.R.S. § 25 -411 (L). But the legislature specifically exempted petitions only seeking to modify parenting time from the hearing requirements

. A.R.S. § 25

- 411(N) (“Subsection L of this section does not apply if the requested relief is for the modification or clarification of parenting time and not for a change of legal decision

- making .” ). The court did not abuse its discretion by denying the petition without a hearing.

CONCLUSION

¶12 We affirm.