Enforcing an Agreement on Child Support or Spousal Support and Financial Disclosure
This blog adds to the previous blog on ideas to enforce agreements on child and spousal support payments.
Parenting Plans: A Helpful Alberta Parenting Plan Resource
A parenting plan is an agreement between parents on the children’s schedule, and how decisions about the children will be made after a separation. A parenting plan is unique to each family, with the best interests of the children as the guiding factor. An effective parenting plan can help improve communication between separated parents and…
Retroactive Child Support: Preventative Tips!
Retroactive child support can arise where the paying parent has either under or overpaid child support. A retroactive claim may mean the recipient parent didn’t receive the child support he or she could have used at the time to support the kids. Or, it could mean the payor was overpaying or accruing arrears on an…
Reducing Child Support Retroactively
In 2021, the Supreme Court of Canada, in the case of Colucci v Colucci 2021 SCC 24, weighed in on the relevant factors that should apply if a payor parent seeks to reduce his or her child support payments retroactively. The approach is different from retroactively increasing support. This is a summary on retroactive reduction…
Reducing Child Support Retroactively: Income Information is Key
What if you or your former partner want to reduce child support retroactively? That is, re-calculate and reduce the child support already paid or that has accumulated as arrears.
Are Legal Fees Tax Deductible?
Sometimes! The recipient of child support may be able to claim some of the legal and accounting fees incurred to obtain or enforce child support, as a tax deduction. There may also be situations where legal and accounting fees relating to a spousal support order are deductible.