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Child Support Guidelines- Section 7 Expenses- An Overview

Under Section 7 of the Federal Child Support Guidelines and the Alberta Child Support Guidelines a parent may be obligated to pay, or entitled to receive, an additional amount of child support over the monthly base amount. The additional amount is intended to cover special or extraordinary expenses for the child, and may cover all or a portion of the following expenses for a child: childcare expenses incurred as a result of the custodial parent’s employment, education, or training for emp...

Child Support in Alberta and Imputation of Income

In the recent Alberta Court of Appeal decision of MacDonald v Brodoff, 2020 ABCA 246, the Court of Appeal, signalled that it might be time to reconsider the previous decision in Hunt v Hunt-Smolis. In MacDonald, the Court analyzed the imputation of income in the context of a shared parenting arrangement.

Changing Your Name in Alberta

An individual may apply to change the first or last name of their spouse or adult interdependent partner with the consent of that partner. It should be noted, that the Act does not permit an individual to apply for a name change if they have been convicted of a designated offence, as defined by the regulations of the Vital Statistics Act.

What is Family Docket Court?

As of May 13th, 2020, all family matters scheduled in the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta must be scheduled initially for a Family Docket Court appearance before proceeding with filing of materials and scheduling of court processes. The introduction of Family Docket Court is intended to streamline court processes and provide a purposeful trajectory for family matters entering the court system here in Alberta. On the date of the Family Docket Court, a Justice of he Court of Queen’s Benc...