What is the range of child support payable to the paying spouse in a shared parenting situation?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Kielesinski v. Kielesinski, 2011 BCSC 538 (CanLII):
Section 9 of the Federal Child Support Guidelines, S.O.R./97-175 give the court discretion to depart from the basic table amounts of child support in shared parenting situations. The court must consider the support tables applicable to each spouse, the increased costs of shared custody and “the condition, means, needs and other circumstances” of each spouse and of the children. Although s. 9 gives the court flexibility, it does not give the paying spouse an automatic right to a reduction in the support payable because a shared custody arrangement has come to exist; Contino v. Leonelli-Contino, 2005 SCC 63.
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