He stopped paying the full amount when his health failed, and assumed the court would fix the past later. It did not. A new BC Supreme Court decision explains effective notice, retroactive variation, and what it takes to retroactively cancel support arrears.

I just finished my first year of law school, and the most expensive thing I learned is that “we never got married” is not the legal force field people think it is. In BC, two year of living like a married couple can put you squarely inside the Family Law Act property division, pension splitting, spousal support, the whole thing. Here are five misconceptions I hear regularly, sorted out in plain English.

Lady Justice packs a punch forcing a BC doctor trying to avoid spousal and child support to pay $650,000 to his ex-wife in 4 months time before the court is prepared to hear an appeal.