Posts Tagged ‘child support’
Recent case law: Payment of child support when recipient alienates the child
Johnston v Mayer 2014 MBQB 197 addresses whether the mother (Ms Mayer) has to pay retroactive child support to the father (Mr. Johnston), whether the father should be found in contempt of court for his breaches of the interim custody order and whether costs should be awarded. The father in this case, in the words…
Read moreHow can a woman get current tax information from her former spouse?
A common legal bullying tactic of abusive men is to slow down family court proceedings by failing to file documents in a timely manner or by filing incomplete documents. Nowhere is this more common than with the filing of Financial Statements, which are required whenever there is a claim for support (child or spousal) or…
Read moreWhat is imputing income?
From time to time, the court will impute income in a child support case. This means the judge finds that the amount of income the parent who is paying support is claiming is not a fair reflection of what they could be earning and, to address this, assigns an income to the payer, whether or…
Read moreFactors judges consider for support of adult children: Recent case law
The issue of how much child support should be paid for adult children and for how long it should be paid is not clearly addressed in the Child Support Guidelines. In a 2012 British Columbia case (Naylor v Naylor 2012 CarswellBC 2979), Justice Jenkins explores this issue with respect to an adult child who is…
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