What is the test for notice of a claim for spousal support?
Manitoba, Canada
The following excerpt is from Prince v. Soenen, 2015 MBQB 31 (CanLII):
Cromwell J. articulated in Kerr v. Baranow, 2011 SCC 10, [2011] 1 S.C.R. 269 (at para. 208): … there is no presumptive entitlement to spousal support and, unlike child support, the spouse is in general not under any legal obligation to look out for the separated spouse’s legal interests. Thus, concerns about notice, delay and misconduct generally carry more weight in relation to claims for spousal support: …
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