Can a husband bring a motion to change his spousal support obligation based on his retirement?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Walts v. Walts, 2013 ONSC 6787 (CanLII):
In Innes v. Innes, supra, the husband at age sixty-two and in the context of a twenty-six year marriage brought a motion to change based on his retirement. On the facts there, which included the voluntary nature of that retirement and that the husband had not taken into account his ongoing spousal support obligation in retiring, the court was not satisfied that he had established a material change in circumstances.
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