What is the real complaint of the petitioner in her application for a reduction in the amount of maintenance paid by the respondent?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Friedman v. Friedman, 1987 CanLII 2915 (BC SC):
I perceive the real complaint of the petitioner to be the respondent’s complacency with her present lot and her apparent unwillingness, in the absence of greater income potential in the musical field, to seek and obtain other work so that she can become economically self-sufficient within a reasonable time. In the face of the adoption (or at least the recognition) by the Divorce Act, 1985 of sentiments and opinions expressed in Messier v. Delage, 1983 CanLII 31 (SCC), [1983] 2 S.C.R. 401, 35 R.F.L. (2d) 337, 2 D.L.R. (4th) 1, 50 N.R. 16 [Que.], that there is at some point a right to insist that maintenance end, the petitioner views the respondent’s complacency as unfair.
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