In a personal injury action brought by the wife against the husband for child support because of his drug addiction, does the wife rely on the law of drug addiction to argue that the husband's drug addiction would be wrong at law and contrary to public policy?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Brooks v Brooks, 2017 ONSC 1806 (CanLII):
The wife specifically relies on Hutchison v. Gretzinger, 2007 CanLii 57089 (ONSC), an appeal from an order made in the Ontario Court of Justice, for the proposition that it would be wrong at law and contrary to public policy that the husband be exempted from his child support obligation because of drug addiction. She referred me to the following paragraph.
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