What are the implications of the Court of Appeal's decision not to order an indefinite reduction in the amount of spousal support ordered?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from McKinnon v. McKinnon, 2018 ONCA 596 (CanLII):
Typically, support orders attract significant deference. This is informed by both the discretion involved in making support orders and the importance of finality in family law litigation. An appeal court should only intervene where there is a material error, a serious misapprehension of the evidence or an error of law, and not because the court would have made a different decision or balanced the relevant factors differently: Hickey v. Hickey, 1999 CanLII 691 (SCC), [1999] 2 S.C.R. 518, at para. 12.
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