What is the test for the purpose of compensating the spouses of a plaintiff in a long-term disability case?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from G.P. v. M.P., 2015 BCSC 1757 (CanLII):
Compensatory support is intended to redress one spouse’s economic disadvantages arising from the end of marriage or the conferral of economic advantages on the other spouse (Chutter v. Chutter, 2008 BCCA 507 , 301 D.L.R. 297 at para. 50, leave to appeal ref’d [2009] 1 S.C.R, [2009] S.C.C.A. No. 41).
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