Child Support in Canada: What everybody ought to know

Find everything that you need to know about child support in Canada. Written by a lawyer in easy to understand terms. Helpful for both child support payors and recipients.

You will find everything you need to know including how the child support guidelines work, when the amount of child support is higher (or lower) than the guideline amount, life insurance requirements, extended health and dental benefits, taxation, the relationship between child support and access, child support for shared custody, child support for split custody, special or extraordinary expenses, retroactive child support, child support for adult children, determining income, self-employment, income fluctuations, dealing with post-secondary expenses, step children, changing child support, retirement, ending child support, enforcing child support, documentary disclosure, bankruptcy, and legal fees.