What is the standard for review of child support orders?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from McCabe v. McCabe, 2008 BCCA 187 (CanLII):
The standard of review of child support orders and the rationale for giving deference to the trial judge are set out in Hickey v. Hickey, 1999 CanLII 691 (SCC), [1999] 2 S.C.R. 518 at paragraph 11-12:
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