What is a child’s right to have his or her parents contribute to his support?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Nichols v. Nichols, 2005 CanLII 3473 (ON SC):
The children’s right is to have their parents contribute to their support according to the parents’ relative abilities to do so (Thomson v. Thomson (1988), 1988 CanLII 5215 (SK CA), 14 R.F.L. (3d) 347).
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