October 12 – Standard of Review on Appeal for Support Orders

“The Supreme Court of Canada addressed the standard of review for appeals of support orders in Hickey v. Hickey,1999 CanLII 691 (SCC), [1999] 2 S.C.R. 518, 172 D.L.R. (4th) 577. As stated in that decision, at para. 11, appeal courts should not overturn support orders unless the reasons disclose an error in principle, a significant misapprehension of the evidence, or unless the award is clearly wrong.”

Selznick v. Selznick, 2012 ONCA 686 (CanLII) at 5