What is the test for determining whether a child’s unilateral termination of a relationship is determinative?
Prince Edward Island, Canada
The following excerpt is from Urquhart v. Loane, 2016 PECA 15 (CanLII):
The father says that the child’s unilateral termination of the relationship is determinative. She is an adult; she made that choice; she must live with the consequences. A unilateral withdrawal of a child from the relationship with a parent rarely stands alone as a factor disentitling an adult child to support and, in addition, the threshold for such a finding is high (Olszewski v. Willick, 2009 SKCA 133, at para.34).
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