How has the court apportioned extraordinary expenses in a child support matter?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from J.A.M. v J.P.M, 2019 BCSC 654 (CanLII):
Consultation is a factor informing the reasonableness of extraordinary expenses. For extracurricular activities, one parent cannot make decisions concerning a child that will have unreasonable impacts on the other parent, including the support that parent may have to pay: Richter at para. 9. Some sacrifices may be unreasonable in light of the parties’ means. Consultation or lack thereof is not on its own determinative of proper apportionment of extraordinary expenses, but it is one of many factors the judge may take into account when exercising discretion: Delichte v. Rogers, 2013 MBCA 106 at para. 44 [Delichte].
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