In what circumstances will a judge make a child support order retroactive to the date of the date the Respondent's first child was born?
Northwest Territories, Canada
The following excerpt is from Giroux v Paniloo, 2010 NWTSC 14 (CanLII):
Similarly, in Eliuk v. Grymaloski, [2008] N.W.T.T.C. 13, Gorin J. again made a child support order retroactive to the date of separation. In doing so, he remarked that the Respondent had completely failed to honour his moral and legal obligation to support his children for 6 years.
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