What is the test for determining whether a child has met the appropriate standard of care?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Douglas v. Douglas, 2013 ONCJ 242 (CanLII):
[58] The onus is on the party alleging that the guidelines are inappropriate to establish this on a balance of probabilities. The closer the circumstances of the child are to those upon which the usual guidelines approach is based, the less likely it is that the usual guidelines calculation will be found to be inappropriate. See: Rebenchuk v. Rebenchuk, supra, at paragraph 30.
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