Can a judge impute income on the basis of an average income over a period of three years?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from M.S. v. M.M., 2015 BCSC 1599 (CanLII):
In Ouellette v. Ouellette at paras. 66-67, Tysoe J.A. held that a judge exercising the broad discretion under s. 19 to impute income could, in appropriate circumstances, impute income on the basis of an average income over a period longer than three years.
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