What is the test for calculating the amount of income a child should receive from their parents?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Stoyko v. Delorme, 2013 ONSC 4232 (CanLII):
Imputing income is the way the court “gives effect to the legal requirement that a parent must earn what he or she is capable of earning and must support his or her children based on this capacity to earn.” (Sherwood v. Sherwood, 2006 CanLII 40795 (ON SC), [2006] O.J. No. 4860 (S.C.), at para.71.)
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