What is the standard of review in maintenance cases?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Grierson v. Watters, 1996 CanLII 1597 (BC CA):
The standard of appellate review in maintenance cases was recently restated in Willick v. Willick (1994) 1994 CanLII 28 (SCC), 6 R.F.L. (4th) 161 (S.C.C.) at 183, where Sopinka J. said: ... an appellate court should not intervene absent a material error in principle, a significant misapprehension of the evidence, or an award which is clearly wrong.
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