Brent Christopher Balmer

The Respondent Father brought a motion to change his child support obligations for two adult children, Jamie Lee Duesling and Damya Skye Duesling, as ordered in 2008.

The Applicant Mother brought responding motions, which were dismissed without costs.

The court addressed the father's significant child support arrears and his contribution to the children's post-secondary education expenses (s.7 expenses), noting his increased income since the original order and his evasion of obligations.

The court declined to apply the D.B.S. guideline of 3 years for retroactive support and also declined to adjust the basic guideline support amount despite the rationale in Park v. Thompson, citing the father's "support holiday." The father was ordered to pay substantial arrears of guideline child support and one-third of the children's s.7 education expenses forthwith, and ongoing child support for the younger child.