What is the effect of a divorce on the amount of support for the wife of a husband who is remarried?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Schonauer v. Schonauer, 1979 CanLII 1212 (ON CJ):
[18] With respect, I would suggest that matters could be improved in this regard for the wife by her seeking a divorce or by the consistent application of a “doctrine of remoteness” as discussed in Lawless v. Lawless, supra. The idea is that the passage of time after separation should tend to reduce the obligation and that certainly the obligation to support should be reduced where the need arose out of developments subsequent to separation.
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