What is the test for determining the reasonableness of the expense of a spouse’s medical expenses?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from J.M. v. D.M., 2013 BCSC 502 (CanLII):

Where the reasonableness of the expense is in issue, “the court can look beyond the respective incomes of the parties and consider their overall means, including income from other sources, such as family income”: Pearse v. Pearse, 2010 BCSC 117, at para. 44.

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