Is a husband entitled to stop paying spousal support to his disabled wife?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Ghent v. Busse, 2021 ONSC 3278 (CanLII):
In Hickey v. Princ, 2015 ONSC 5596 (Div. Ct.), at para. 1, the court asked: [I]s a former spouse, who chooses to retire at age 51 on a full pension but is still able to work and earn an income, entitled to reduce and ultimately discontinue paying spousal support to his former wife, who is disabled from working and is almost totally dependent on those spousal support payments to provide for her needs?
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