Can a husband who works in the same company as his wife get paid for the same amount of work?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from Bowey v. Bowey, 2005 ABQB 209 (CanLII):
As such I cannot, under the general regime specified in Hunt v. Smolis-Hunt supra, disregard the husband's somewhat bona fide employment choice and impute his previously higher annual salary to him, given that I cannot find a deliberate course of conduct evidencing the obligor's intention to avoid his full child support guideline obligations.
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