Wolfson v. Wolfson

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING AND CLARIFICATION SHEPHERD, J. Howard Wolfson’s motion for rehearing of this Court’s opinion issued.September 9, 2015, is denied. His motion for clarification is granted. In our opinion, we determined “the trial court departed from the essential requirements of law by temporarily modifying the child’s parenting plan without a full hearing in which the mother was permitted to present her case,” and “quash[ed] the order under review.” (Emphasis added.) The order under review was the July 27, 2015, order which temporarily modified the parties’ previously mediated and court-ratified parenting plan providing for equal timesharing. We therefore “remand[ed] the case to the trial court to promptly reconsider the issue of the mother’s supervised visitation.” In so doing, we ordered the trial court to provide Mrs. Wolfson, without delay, an opportunity to be heard on Mr. Wolfson’s emergency request for temporary relief until such time as the trial court could schedule a full evidentiary hearing on the parties’ cross petitions for permanent modification of the parenting plan. Because we recognize that the parties’ child has been living with his father since *1147 December 2014, and we are reluctant to further disrupt these arrangements, we uphold the trial court’s decision to maintain the status quo. However, supervised visitation should only continue until such time as, after hearing from Mrs. Wolfson, the trial court decides Mr. Wolfson’s emergency motion for temporary relief. So ordered. This opinion shall take ef-feet immediately,