Is P.R. R.'s income imputing income when he is deliberately unemployed?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from P.R. v M.R, 2019 BCSC 102 (CanLII):
I find that P.R. has, for much of the past two years, been deliberately unemployed. The case law is clear that parents have a joint and ongoing legal obligation to support their children and must earn what they are capable of earning. The court gives effect to this obligation by imputing income: Hanson v. Hanson, 1999 CanLII 6307 (BC SC), [1999] B.C.J. No. 2532 at paras. 8-9 (S.C.).
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