What is the legal test for cost recovery in a family law case?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Gibson v. Gibson, 2011 ONSC 5602 (CanLII):
As noted in Biant v. Sagoo[6], “the preferable approach in family law cases is have costs recovery generally approach full recovery, so long as the successful party has behaved reasonably and the costs claimed are proportional to the issues and the result.”
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