The Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines:
A New and Improved User's Guide to the Final Version

Professor Carol Rogerson, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto and
Professor Rollie Thompson, Dalhousie Law School

March 2010

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© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada,
    represented by the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada,
    2010-03-31

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

• 1.  Introduction
• 2.  Entitlement (FV Chapter 4)
  • (a) Entitlement as a threshold issue
  • (b) Entitlement and the application of the Guidelines formulas
  • (c) Entitlement issues on variation and review
• 3.  Agreements (FV 5.2)
• 4.  Application to Interim Orders (FV 5.3)
• 5.  Income (FV Chapter 6)
  • (a) Differences in "income" for spousal support
  • (b) Can a payor have "two incomes"?
  • (c) Using alternative incomes, to estimate ranges
  • (d) Other assorted income issues
• 6.  Use the Right Formula
• 7.  The Without Child Support Formula (FV Chapter 7)
  • (a) The problem of amount in short marriages without children (FV 7.4.2)
  • (b) Short marriages: immigration sponsorship cases
  • (c) Duration under the without child support formula (FV, 7.5)
  • (d) Duration and the "rule of 65" (FV 7.5.3)
  • (e) Medium length marriages with children: crossover cases after child support ends
  • (f) Retirement cases under the without child support formula
• 8.  The With Child Support Formula (FV Chapter 8)
  • (a) The shared custody formula (FV 8.6)
  • (b) Split custody (FV 8.7)
  • (c) Mixed custody
  • (d) Step-children: applying the formulas (FV 8.8)
  • (e) The custodial payor formula (FV 8.9)
  • (f) The adult child formula (FV 8.10)
  • (g) Issues of duration (FV 8.5)
• 9.  Choosing Location Within the Range
• 10. Restructuring (FV Chapter 10)
  • (a) Restructuring under the without child support formula
  • (b) Restructuring under the with child support formula
  • (c) Restructuring under the custodial payor formula
• 11. Ceilings and Floors
  • (a) The floor, payor incomes below $20,000/$30,000 (FV 11.2, 11.4)
  • (b) Payor income above the $350,000 ceiling (FV 1.1, 11.3)
• 12. Exceptions (FV Chapter 12)
  • (a) Compelling financial circumstances at the interim stage (FV 12.1)
  • (b) Debt payments (FV 12.2)
  • (c) Prior support obligations (FV 12.3)
  • (d) Illness and disability (FV 12.4)
  • (e) The compensatory exception in short marriages without children (FV 12.5)
  • (f) Property division: reapportionment (B.C.) (FV 12.6.1)
  • (g) Property division: Boston (FV 12.6.3)
  • (h) Property division: high property awards (FV 12.6.2)
  • (i) Basic needs/hardship (FV 12.7)
  • (j) Non-taxable payor income (FV 12.8)
  • (k) Non-primary parent to fulfil parenting role (FV 12.9)
  • (l) Special needs of child (FV 12.10)
  • (m) Section 15.3: inadequate compensation (FV 12.11)
  • (n) Other grounds for departures, "new exceptions"
• 13. Variation and Review (FV Chapter 14)
  • (a) Application of the SSAG on variation and review (FV 14.1, 14.2)
  • (b) Application to pre-SSAG orders
  • (c) Crossovers between formulas when child support ends (FV 14.5)
  • (d) Post-separation income increase of the payor (FV 14.3)
  • (e) The recipient's remarriage or repartnering (FV 14.7)
  • (f) Second families, or subsequent children (FV 14.8)
  • (g) Self-sufficiency and termination (FV 13, 13.1, 13.7, 13.8)
• 14. Retroactive Support and the SSAG

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