What is the impact of imputing income on child support?
Nova Scotia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Thompson v. Thompson, 2013 NSSC 58 (CanLII):
By imputing income, the court is able to give effect to the legal obligation on all parents to earn what they have the capacity to earn in order to meet their ongoing legal obligation to support their children. Therefore, it is important to consider not only the actual amount of income earned by a parent, but the amount of income they could earn if working to capacity (Van Gool v. Van Gool 1998 CanLII 5650 (BC CA), (1998), 166 D.L.R. (4th) 528).
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