What is the test for self-sufficientness?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Briggeman v. Briggeman, 2000 BCSC 900 (CanLII):
The difficulty in this case is in the assessment of the efforts the plaintiff has made to contribute to her own support. I doubt that the plaintiff will achieve anything like full self-sufficiency anytime soon, if ever. I am mindful of the observations of Madam Justice McLachlin in Moge v. Moge 1992 CanLII 25 (SCC), [1992] 43 R.F.L. (3d) 345 at 399:
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