What is the test for "unusually high" access costs?
Nova Scotia, Canada
The following excerpt is from O’Brien v. O’Brien, 2010 NSSC 126 (CanLII):
In Wainman v. Clairmont, 2004 NSSC 39, at paragraph 25, Hall J. considered what is meant by the term “unusually high”: Whether access costs expenses are “unusually high”, in my view, must be determined based on the relative financial means of the parent responsible for the access expenses. For an affluent person, a few hundred dollars a month for access would be a pittance, while for a person dependent on social assistance for his or her living expenses, it would be an impossibility.
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