How much is a biological parent's legal duty to support a child?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Vezina v. Vezina, 2004 SKQB 134 (CanLII):
Section 5 of the Regulations to the Child Support Guidelines provides: 5 Where the spouse against whom a child support order is sought stands in the place of a parent for a child, the amount of a child support order is, in respect of that spouse, such amount as the court considers appropriate, having regard to these Guidelines and any other parent’s legal duty to support the child. [For example, a natural parent other than the respondent.] I am mindful of the observation of Bastarache J. in Chartier v. Chartier, 1999 CanLII 707 (SCC), [1999] 1 S.C.R. 242, that the best interests of children is not determined by biological parenthood or legal status.
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