Is a spouse's income from a prior year considered when calculating the amount of income they received from a different employer when calculating support?

Ontario, Canada


The following excerpt is from Cotton v Cotton, 2015 ONSC 2703 (CanLII):

The Court of Appeal in Vanos v. Vanos 2010 ONTCA 876 at paras. 13-14, held that the court must consider the actual income from a prior year when calculating support for prior years:

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