What is the retroactive nature of a child support award?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Katarzynski v. Katarzynski, 2012 ONCJ 294 (CanLII):
[86] A retroactive award is generally retroactive to the date when effective notice was given to the payor parent, unless the payor acted in a blameworthy manner, in which case support should be retroactive to the date when the payor’s circumstances changed materially. See Franklin v. Franklin, 2010 ABQB 787.
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