Is a payor required to provide evidence that pre-tax income is not available to the payor?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from K.W. v. L.H., 2018 BCCA 204 (CanLII):

The onus is on the payor to provide evidence that a corporation’s pre-tax income is not available to the payor: Hausmann v. Klukas, 2009 BCCA 32 at paras. 50–52, leave to appeal ref’d [2009] SCCA No. 135.

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