Posted Jan 16th, 2023
“ I’ll quit my job and flip burgers for a living!” -- it is one of the biggest cliches family lawyers regularly hear from a parent or spouse who earns a high income.
Until recently, the law may not have penalized the party who went through on their threat. The Court of Appeal in Alberta over twenty-one years ago rendered a decision in the case Hunt v Smolis-Hunt, 2001 ABCA 229, which held that the payor needed to have a specific intent to show that they quit a more lucrative job specif...
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