What is the Father's Income for the purpose of the Child Support Calculation?

Ontario, Canada


The following excerpt is from Marshall v. Jenkinson, 2017 ONCJ 628 (CanLII):

21. The father’s counsel argued that this court should rely on the decision of Justice Campbell of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Plant v. Marshall, 2016 ONSC 7379 who found in another case involving the father’s obligation to pay child support for a child from another relationship that it is the father’s “size, ethnicity, criminal record and lack of mobility that have prevented him from finding full time employment”. The Issue What is the Father’s Income for the purpose of the Child Support Calculation? (a) The Law

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