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Family law 2025 BCSC 2575

S.N. v. A.N.

The court held the March 2021 child-support order was interim, and dismissed the claimant’s retroactive child-support claim for lack of jurisdiction.

  • Retroactive child support
  • Jurisdiction to award retroactive support
  • Interim versus final orders
  • Application of supreme court family rules
  • Family maintenance enforcement
  • Retroactive-child-support
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Family law 2024 BCCA 395

Hildebrand v. Hildebrand

The Court of Appeal held an interim without prejudice support order had to be analyzed under Divorce Act variation principles, but upheld most of the chambers relief.

  • Retroactive variation
  • Interim without prejudice orders
  • Arrears rescission
  • Family maintenance enforcement
  • Federal child support guidelines
  • S.17 divorce act
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Family law 2023 BCSC 164

Rhys-Williams v. Rhys-Williams

The court reduced child support after finding the respondent’s income had fallen and there was no basis to impute additional income. It also cancelled arrears and a property charge.

  • Child support variation
  • Imputation of income
  • Charges on title
  • Family maintenance enforcement
  • Costs
  • Child-support-variation
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Family law 2020 BCSC 2198

Bennett v. Lariviere

The court held that a 2016 written agreement reflected the parties’ shared custody and support arrangements, so no retroactive child support was owing and the action was dismissed.

  • Retroactive child support
  • Variation of interim order
  • Family maintenance enforcement
  • Want of prosecution
  • Shared custody arrangements
  • Retroactive-child-support
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Family law 2020 BCSC 1209

Buchanan v. Buchanan

The court granted a provisional variation of a Saskatchewan child-support order, finding no attornment to BC jurisdiction but allowing retroactive support relief.

  • Variation of support order
  • Provisional variation under s.18(2)
  • Attornment to jurisdiction
  • Retroactive child support
  • Imputed income
  • Family maintenance enforcement
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Family law 2020 BCSC 1007

Driediger v. Driediger

The court dismissed a family-law application brought by written submissions because it raised multiple issues and did not comply with procedural requirements.

  • Spousal support
  • Disclosure obligations
  • Variation of support
  • Costs
  • Applications by written submission
  • Family maintenance enforcement
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Family law 2020 BCSC 378

H.J. v. P.J.

The court imputed income to the husband, revised past support, fixed child support going forward, divided family debt, and apportioned orthodontic and expert fees.

  • Imputation of income
  • Variation and cancellation of arrears
  • S.7 special or extraordinary expenses
  • Family law act s.211 assessment fees
  • Family maintenance enforcement
  • Canada child tax benefit recovery
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Family law 2020 BCSC 96

J.K.H. v. M.S.B.

The court dismissed the respondent’s bid to set aside or vary a prior family order, upheld hair follicle testing, ordered supervised parenting time, granted a divorce, and denied child support variation.

  • Setting aside interim/default orders
  • Parenting time supervision
  • Drug testing (hair follicle)
  • Family maintenance enforcement
  • Section 211 psychological report
  • Change in child support
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Family law 2019 BCSC 783

Chaput v. Yorke-Hardy

The court made interim parenting time and child-support-related orders, fixed arrears at $13,300, adjourned enforcement, and imposed communication and disclosure conditions.

  • Child support variation
  • Parenting time orders
  • Interim orders
  • Arrears fixation
  • Disclosure
  • Family maintenance enforcement
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Family law 2018 BCSC 2404

O.K. v. V.K.

The court dismissed a father's application to vary spousal support and cancel arrears, holding most relief was barred by res judicata and the support evidence was insufficient.

  • Spousal support
  • Child support
  • Variation of orders
  • Arrears cancellation
  • Res judicata
  • Disclosure
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