On an interim support application, can the court get bogged down with the merits of the application?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Jiwani v Jiwani, 2021 BCSC 2489 (CanLII):

On interim support applications, the court attempts to achieve rough justice and should not be bogged down with the merits of the case: Boucher v. Garnett, 2016 BCSC 2284 at para. 18.

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