What is the difference between compensatory and non-compensation based support?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Levin v. Levin, 2018 ONSC 6805 (CanLII):
In Lazare v. Heitner[6] paras. 27, 28, and 33, McGee J. described compensatory and non-compensatory (sometimes referred to as needs-based) support as follows:
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