What is the standard of review in a child support application?
Manitoba, Canada
The following excerpt is from How v. How, 2010 MBCA 11 (CanLII):
7 Both parties agree, as do I, that the standard of review in respect of child support orders is that stated in Hickey v. Hickey, 1999 CanLII 691 (SCC), [1999] 2 S.C.R. 518, wherein L’Heureux-Dubé J. wrote (at para. 11): Our Court has often emphasized the rule that appeal courts should not overturn support orders unless the reasons disclose an error in principle, a significant misapprehension of the evidence, or unless the award is clearly wrong. ….
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