How is child support calculation calculated for the purposes of Guidelines?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Yang v. Zhang, 2017 BCSC 524 (CanLII):

The objective is to ensure that a party's Guidelines income reflects the money reasonably available for child support purposes: see Richardson v. Richardson, 2013 BCCA 378 at paras. 54–55.

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