What is the standard of review in the context of a spouse's claim for spousal support?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Silver v Silver, 2015 ONSC 3816 (CanLII):
In the support context, the parties agree that the appropriate standard of review is set out in Hickey v. Hickey, 1999 CanLII 691 (SCC), [1999] 2 S.C.R. 518. Appellate courts must give considerable deference to the findings of trial judges, and should only intervene if there is a “material error, serious misapprehension of the evidence, or an error in law”, and not simply because it would have weighed factors differently. The Spousal Support Issue:
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