What is the test for the purpose of compensating the recipient spouse in a long-term disability case?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Wong v Li, 2018 BCSC 745 (CanLII):
Compensatory support is intended to provide redress to the recipient spouse for economic disadvantage arising from the marriage or the conferral of an economic advantage upon the other spouse: Chutter v. Chutter, 2008 BCCA 507 at para.50, leave to appeal ref’d [2009] 1 S.C.R. vi (note).
Compensatory entitlement is generally found in marriages of long duration. It may also be found where the spouse seeking support has worked primarily in the family business: Ursel v. Ursel, 2014 BCSC 1219; B.J.A. v. W.A.A., 2008 BCSC 1319.
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