What is the test for overturning a Family Law Support Order?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Lesko v. Lesko, 2021 ONCA 369 (CanLII):
Orders resolving financial disputes in family law cases are entitled to significant deference. An appeal court should only intervene where there is a material error, a serious misapprehension of the evidence, or an error in law. It is not entitled to overturn a support order simply because it would have made a different decision or balanced the factors differently: Hickey v. Hickey, 1999 CanLII 691 (SCC), [1999] 2 S.C.R. 518, at para. 12. Background facts
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