If you are in a long-term marriage, what is the impact of retirement on spousal support?
New Brunswick, Canada
The following excerpt is from Betts v. Betts, 2015 NBQB 19 (CanLII):
In any event, it is best to forewarn that the circumstance of an actual retirement does not change the goal of the Divorce Act, i.e. to provide each spouse in long marriages as here comparable (equal) standards of living, even if because of retirement it is necessarily below the marital standard (See: Vaughn v. Vaughn, supra, at para. 21; Hoar v. Toner 2010 NBQB 167). But that is for another day. e. The Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines (SSAG)
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