What is the test for self-sufficienthip for a 50 year old woman who has not been in the job market for many years?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Shiels v. Shiels, 2001 BCSC 634 (CanLII):
Obviously there are cases where by virtue of the circumstances of the parties self-sufficiency is not practically possible. Such was the case in Story v. Story (1989), 42 B.C.R.L. (2d) 21 (B.C.C.A.). In that case Proudfoot J.A. at p. 39 stated: There may be cases where self-sufficiency is never possible due to the age of the spouse at the marriage breakdown. It is often, in my opinion, totally unrealistic to expect that a 45 or 50 year old spouse who has not been in the job market for many, many years to be retrained and to compete for employment in a job market where younger women have difficulty becoming employed. Employment and self-sufficiency are simply not achievable. ….
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