Is non-disclosure of income a ground for making a child support order retroactive?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Dryden v. Bischoff, 2006 BCSC 1297 (CanLII):
In the case of Hietanen v. Hietanen (2004), B.C.S.C. 306, Fraser J. concluded (at paragraph 9): …non-disclosure of income by a person whose child support obligations are being fixed is a ground for making an order retroactive.
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