What factors will the court consider when determining child support?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Giroux v. Buss, 2010 BCSC 965 (CanLII):

As set out in Contino v. Leonelli-Contino, 2005 SCC 63, [2005] 3 S.C.R. 217, the court must exercise its discretion in setting the child support, and no one of the three factors in s. 9 should prevail.

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