Following the breakdown of a marriage with one child, the parties sought determinations regarding child support, spousal support, and income imputation.
The applicant argued that the respondent was intentionally underemployed and requested that income be imputed for the purpose of calculating child support, while the respondent sought spousal support.
The court found that the respondent had made genuine and extensive efforts to obtain employment and was not intentionally underemployed, declining to impute income.
The court ordered the respondent to pay child support based on her actual income and found that she had established entitlement to spousal support based on economic interdependency and need following the marriage breakdown.
Ongoing spousal support was ordered on an indefinite basis, subject to review upon a material change in circumstances.
