How is a payor's base salary calculated for child support purposes?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Jiwani v Jiwani, 2021 BCSC 2489 (CanLII):
The court in Walker v. Maxwell, 2014 BCSC 2357, used a similar method to calculate child support. There, the court used the payor’s base salary for child support purposes, and set out a mechanism to account for bonuses that might be received in any year: at para. 141.
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