What is the test for overturning a child support award?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from Fleury v. Fleury, 2009 ABCA 43 (CanLII):
The parties agree that support awards should not be overturned on appeal “unless the reasons disclose an error in principle, a significant misapprehension of the evidence, or the award is clearly wrong”: Hickey v. Hickey, 1999 CanLII 691 (SCC), [1999] 2 S.C.R. 518 at para. 11. An appellate court is not entitled to interfere simply because it would have made a different decision or balanced factors differently. Analysis (a) Entitlement of the father to apply for variation
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