Is under-employment reasonable in the context of child support claims?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from D.M.D. v. R.L.D., 2015 BCSC 2332 (CanLII):
That brings me to the second question: Was the under-employment reasonable? If, as it appears, the father is travelling for pleasure, then a court may consider that to be the kind of intentional under-employment that attracts imputation of his normal income, bearing in mind the general rule as formulated in Donovan [Donovan v. Donovan (2000), 190 D.L.R. (4th) 696, 2000 MBCA 80] that “a parent cannot avoid child support obligations by a self-induced reduction of income”.
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