How have the courts fixed income based on what the husband actually earned?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from K.A.M.R. v. W.H.G., 2014 BCSC 103 (CanLII):
In Bell v. Bell, 1999 BCCA 497, the court fixed income based on what the husband actually earned, given the Guidelines require a “fair fixing of income” (para. 12) and that the husband’s employment was in an area where employment was scarce and where there could be wide fluctuations in income.
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