What are the Guidelines for the purpose of determining child support?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from C.D.W. v. D.A.T., 2015 BCSC 2262 (CanLII):
The Guidelines were created to permit a fair and impartial assessment of the money available to a spouse to pay child support: Kowalewich v. Kowalewich, 2001 BCCA 450 at para. 42.
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