What is the test for determining whether a spouse has an obligation to pay spousal support?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Ai v. Zhu, 2010 BCSC 1107 (CanLII):
The obligation to pay spousal support most commonly arises from the need to recognize the economic consequences of the marriage or its breakdown, but even in the absence of those compensatory considerations, need alone may be enough: Bracklow v. Bracklow, 1999 CanLII 715 (SCC), [1999] 1 S.C.R. 420.
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