Opinion ID: 4514238
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: The Older Child

Text: [¶3] On February 12, 2007, the court (Romei, J.) entered an order establishing parental rights and responsibilities between the father and the mother of the older child, granting primary residence and sole parental rights and responsibilities of the child to the mother and allowing the father supervised visits with the child on certain days. The father visited with the child pursuant to this order until August 2018, when the mother stopped visitation between the father and the older child.1 [¶4] On September 12, 2018, the father filed a motion for contempt against the mother, alleging that the mother had violated the 2007 parental rights order by not allowing supervised visitation between the father and the child. Later, on December 12, 2018, the father also filed a motion to modify the terms of the 2007 parental rights order, requesting that further visitation be allowed. After a hearing was held on the motion for contempt on 1The court found that, in August 2018, there were allegations made by a friend of the parents that the father had assaulted her. The court also found that information about the allegation was referred to the Department, a local police department, and the Maine State Police, although no charges were ever brought, and that neither child was aware of the allegation until sometime after. Each mother stopped visitation between the father and the children after this allegation in August 2018. 3 January 7, 2019, the court (Rushlau, J.) granted the father’s motion and found that the mother had failed to comply with the 2007 parental rights order. The court awarded the father additional visitation time with his child each weekend, in addition to the visitation schedule in the 2007 parental rights and responsibilities order. The court did not reach the motion to modify at that time.