Is estrangement a factor in determining whether a parent still has to pay child support?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Sandy v. Sandy, 2016 BCSC 1684 (CanLII):
As the Court of Appeal stated in Shaw v. Arndt, 2016 BCCA 78 at paras. 28, 29, 31, estrangement is not necessarily determinative of whether a parent still has an obligation to support a child.
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