MAINTENANCE AND SUPPORT - Spousal support - Obligation to achieve self-sufficiency

Law360 Canada ( July 27, 2021, 5:41 AM EDT) -- Appeal by the husband from a 2020 spousal and child support order made after a review of a 2017 support order. The wife moved to B.C. from Quebec to accommodate the husband’s employment as an RCMP officer. She gave up good employment as a Francophone in Quebec and found it difficult after separation to obtain employment in B.C. due to limits of her English language skills. She was not permitted by the trial order to relocate with their child to Quebec. She did not earn even as much as full‑time minimum wage income in the years since trial. Both the trial judge and chambers judge imputed full‑time minimum wage income to the wife but found that she was entitled to spousal support on a compensatory and non‑compensatory basis. The husband argued the chambers judge should have been much more critical of the wife’s efforts to attain self‑sufficiency....
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