The respondent father brought a motion to vary a temporary consent order for child and spousal support, arguing his commission-based income was decimated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The court found it had jurisdiction to vary the temporary order in these exceptional circumstances.
Recognizing the unprecedented economic impact of the pandemic, the court varied support retroactively to June 2020 based on the father's reduced 2020 income and implemented a novel mechanism requiring support to be adjusted every four months based on his annualized income for the preceding period.
