The applicant sought retroactive lump sum spousal support for 2015 to 2022 following a long common-law relationship and a nine-year post-separation informal support arrangement.
The court refused to permit the respondent to advance a new separation date at trial, found compensatory spousal support entitlement existed in principle, and accepted that the applicant had experienced intimate partner violence and economic disadvantage arising from the relationship.
However, the court held it could not determine quantum or duration because there was insufficient evidence about the parties' financial arrangements from 2006 to 2015 and because the applicant's evidence about her own post-2015 finances, property transfers, corporate dealings, and alleged loans was found unreliable, deceptive, and tax-avoidant.
Without reliable recipient income evidence, the court could not perform a proper SSAG analysis.
The application was dismissed.
