How Is Child Support Calculated?
Video: How Is Child Support Calculated?
By: Steven Benmor, B.Sc., LL.B., Family Lawyer
Jurisdiction: Ontario (Canada)
Child support is based on the non-custodial parent’s income. So your ex-husband’s income determines the amount of child support that he has to pay you. … Child Support Guidelines between British Columbia [Canada] and Ontario [Canada] are very very close because those are the two provinces in Canada that have the highest cost of living. So the amount under the charts, under the tables for the Child Support Guidelines between the two provinces are very close. So it seems to me as so what happened when you came back to Ontario that the Oshawa [Ontario, Canada] court looked at more recent evidence as to what his income was and then looked it up on the chart and ordered him to pay you based on what his most recent income was. And it seems as though it was a lot less than what was proven in the B.C. court. … Well, here’s what I would recommend that you do Gloria, it seems to me as though what happened in your case was that the judge in your case looked at his financial situation and made a determination that he was …
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