What is the standard of review for appeals from support orders?
Manitoba, Canada
The following excerpt is from McCormick v. McCormick, 2007 MBCA 81 (CanLII):
11 The standard of review relating to appeals from support orders is well settled. Decisions concerning child support and spousal support are entitled to considerable deference, and therefore “appeal courts 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.” See Hickey v. Hickey, 1999 CanLII 691 (SCC), [1999] 2 S.C.R. 518 at para. 11.
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