What is the test for setting a time limit on the amount of maintenance payable by a husband to his wife?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Story v. Story, 1989 CanLII 5317 (BC CA):
In my view, the trial judge in this case, probably guided by Messier v. Delage (1983), 1983 CanLII 31 (SCC), 2 D.L.R. (4th) 1, [1983] 2 S.C.R. 401, 50 N.R. 16, declined to place a time-limit on the husband's obligation to support the wife because it was not then known whether the wife would be able to train herself for employment, or become wholly or partially self-sufficient. He anticipated that there might be an application to vary his order when such matters became known. Such was a completely appropriate disposition of the question of maintenance at that early stage.
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