What grounds of appeal apply to overturn a support order?
Nova Scotia, Canada
The following excerpt is from MacDonald v. MacDonald, 2004 NSCA 153 (CanLII):
An appellate court should give considerable deference to the decision of a trial judge and “should not overturn support orders unless the reasons disclose an error in principle, a significant misapprehension of the evidence, or unless the award is clearly wrong,” Hickey v. Hickey, 1999 CanLII 691 (SCC), [1999] 2 S.C.R. 518 paras. 11 and 12. Grounds of Appeal
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