How have the courts treated extraordinary expenses in child support cases?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from K.K.S. v J.S.S, 2019 BCSC 136 (CanLII):
The parties addressed extraordinary expenses in their consent order, but not special expenses. There is a difference between the two, as reflected in the language of the Federal Child Support Guidelines, and as explained in Bodine-Shah v. Shah, 2014 BCCA 191 at para. 66:
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