What is the test for changing a spousal support order?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Kranenburg v. Kranenburg, 2007 BCSC 921 (CanLII):
It is well settled law that in order to support an application to vary a spousal support order there must be a material change in circumstances which if known at the time of the original order would likely have resulted in a different order being made: Willick v. Willick, [1994] 3 S.C.R. 370. That was the law at the time of my Reasons for Judgment in January 1998 and it remains the law to this day. In my view there have been such a change in the payor’s circumstances sufficient to meet that threshold.
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