What is the current state of the law on indefinite support for a spouse?
Manitoba, Canada
The following excerpt is from F.M.R-B. v. T.D.B., 2006 MBQB 16 (CanLII):
The approach of Scurfield, J. of this court in his recent decision in de Gobeo v. de Gobeo, 2005 MBQB 261 is, in my view, correct (at para. 38): Marriage per se does not automatically entitle a spouse to support much less indefinite support. Neither does the objective of self-sufficiency automatically disentitle a spouse to continued support after a fixed period of time. All of the objectives that are enumerated in the section must be carefully balanced. Ultimately it is a factual exercise… ANALYSIS
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