Is respite care a special or extraordinary expense under s. 7 of the Federal Child Support Guidelines?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Johnstone v Johnstone, 2018 BCSC 297 (CanLII):
There is clear case authority on whether respite care is a special or extraordinary expense under s. 7 of the Federal Child Support Guidelines. In Kollmuss v. Kollmuss, 2012 BCSC 709, at para. 81, the court found that respite care payments were not s. 7 special or extraordinary expenses. This finding was applied in Estes v. Estes, 2014 BCSC 2086, at para. 38.
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