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The court found no binding support agreement or waiver, but held the child’s residence change justified retroactive variation. It ordered offset child arrears and stepped-down spousal support.
The court varied interim spousal support retroactively, imputed minimum wage income to the claimant, and denied cancellation of arrears after finding the respondent’s disclosure inadequate.
The court dismissed most of a family-law application, finding no material change in circumstances to extend spousal support and no breach over RRSP rollover or late payments.
The court dismissed the payor's bid to reduce support, increased child support retroactively for 2023–2024, left spousal support in place, and adjusted s. 7 expenses.
The court held the payor’s retirement was a material change and terminated spousal support, finding the recipient’s entitlement was largely needs-based and now satisfied.
The court fixed the amount involved at $64,888 (top-up $36,888 plus 24 months of $1,000 spousal support), found the Applicant more successful overall, applied Tariff A Scale 2 for the $40,001–$65,000 band, fixed trial length at one day, declined to increase costs for settlement offers because there was no valid formal offer under Rule 10.05 and the judgment was not better than the offers, and awarded party-and-party costs of $9,250 to the Applicant payable by April 1, 2024.
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The court ordered a two-stage proceeding: first determine the enforceability of the separation agreement (whether it should be set aside); only after that determination will the court address the scope of disclosure. Broad production of post-separation personal and business financial information is not ordered at this time because relevance, proportionality, privacy and cost weigh against such production until the issues alive are defined by a ruling on enforceability.
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The court varied a spousal support order after finding a material change in circumstances, terminated support effective October 1, 2020, and fixed the remaining equalization balance at $52,922.13.
Court granted divorce, ended spousal and child support, rejected retroactive claims, imputed income to the claimant, and awarded $4,000 costs to the respondent.
Application to sell the Richmond family property was dismissed. The court varied interim spousal support on a without-prejudice basis and made several procedural orders.
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