The issue of occupational rent was extensively reviewed by Slatter J. (as he then was) in Kazmierczak v. Kazmierczak, 2001 ABQB 610, aff’d 2003 ABCA 227. He warned at para 90 that care must be taken in carrying forward the common law concept of occupational rent into the family law concept and occupational rent should only be awarded in the family law context with great caution.
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