Does retirement result in a variation order reducing spousal support obligations?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Ryan v. Ryan, 2018 ONSC 6468 (CanLII):
From a policy point of view, retirement does not always result in a variation order reducing spousal support obligations because it would enable a means to defeat spousal support orders which would ignore the compensation aspect of the analysis in Bracklow v. Bracklow, 1999 CanLII 715 (SCC), [1999] S.C.J. No.14 (S.C.C.).[8]
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