Is a corporation controlled by a payor liable for child support purposes?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Jacobs v. Jacobs, 2015 BCSC 94 (CanLII):
More recently, in Hausmann v. Klukas, Madam Justice Kirkpatrick held that in the absence of clear evidence to the contrary, the pre-tax income of a corporation controlled by a payor will be assumed to be available for child support purposes: paras. 51, 52. Again, this reflects the general policy of the Guidelines that a payor’s income for child-support purposes is based on money reasonably available for that purpose.
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