Does an appellate court need to be slow to interfere with a discretionary order dealing with payment of child support?
Manitoba, Canada
The following excerpt is from Canada v. Canada-Somers, 2008 MBCA 59 (CanLII):
9 Failing an error in law or a misapprehension of the evidence, an appellate court should be slow to interfere with a discretionary order dealing with payment of support. See Hickey v. Hickey, 1999 CanLII 691 (SCC), [1999] 2 S.C.R. 518.
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