Is a support order entitled to deference?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from Swales v. Swales, 2010 ABCA 292 (CanLII):
Support orders are entitled to deference absent an error in principle, a significant misapprehension of the evidence or unless the award is clearly wrong: Hickey v. Hickey, 1999 CanLII 691 (SCC), [1999] 2 S.C.R. 518.
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