What is the effect of losing your employment and not having to pay child support?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Costello v. Costello, 2012 ONCJ 399 (CanLII):
In the case of Lucky v. Lucky, the support payor lost his employment because he was convicted of assaulting a co-worker. The court did not vary his support obligation as this was an event over which he had control. The court found that it could not condone the parent’s actions of assaulting a co-worker to create legitimate inability to pay support that justified a variation.
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