Can You Get Retroactive Child Support?
Video: Can You Get Retroactive Child Support?
By: Steven Benmor, B.Sc., LL.B., Family Lawyer
Jurisdiction: Ontario (Canada)
The Supreme Court of Canada handed down a desicion on the question, “Can you go back in time? Can you get child support for a period prior to now?” Usually you go to court, you ask for child support from today forward but in your case you’ve got a significant question about can you go back in time and get the judge to order him to pay child support going back in time. So my recommendation is if you were to go to the website … if you were to go to a government website called www.canlii.org and you were to go to the Supreme Court of Canada website and just type in DBS — that’s the name of one of the four cases. You can read the Supreme Court of Canada decision on that question.
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