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Sunday, March 18, 2012

A lawyer may not be cut for wife support

West Vancouver lawyer who makes $ 700,000 per year near the denied request to reduce sharply the support payments to his exwife.

Lawyer, recognizes only the "C.d." documents of the Court of Justice has made an average of $ 57,000 per month for each of the last three years, and was paying his ex-wife $ 11,500 per month "A.B.", after the couple divorced in 2008.

Recently, the husband went to court to request that his support payments gradually can be calculated, the EUR 5 000 per month for more than two years.

He requested that his ex is cut off after a three-year period. The lawyer, 53, who owns the homes West of Qualicum Beach, Vancouver, and the Corvette claimed that his ex-wife, 50, needs an incentive to self-sufficient, such as he pointed to his own income drop, when he begins to Cut back his work schedule. The lawyer also claimed that his ex to sell her home and move the condo, North Vancouver investment to contribute to his or her income in the form of the difference.

But the law, Susan Griffin, a husband and wife, which affected their 15 years of marriage during his career success.

"The risk that the wife may not find the agricultural environment after the children had grown up and the husband is a well established his career as a risk that husband and wife should be shared in the same way as they would have to share them, the husband's career ... the possibility that the wife should not have to bear the costs of their career of choice a disproportionate," he wrote.

Griffin ordered a lawyer have to pay his ex-wife $ 10,000 per month for an indefinite period.

The court documents, when the couple first married, the husband had to be less than $ 50000 per year with the Toronto law firm. Stewardess worked as a wife. The consequences for the couple's two daughters were born, and the family moved to Vancouver, his wife remained at home to look after them, even if the husband built an effective career and company. He often work evenings and weekends and was often away on business.

During this time, the husband of one of the revenue of more than $ 800,000 in the flax straw.

"At the end of the marriage, the wife was in the room, without a developed work skills, or significant work experience, on the other hand, in the course of the husband, was now the leading lawyer in the career of Vancouver," wrote the judge.

His wife has since developed a home stager, but it's only about 20 000 a year producing the edge condition.

The lawyer claimed that his ex-wife business plans were unrealistic and the level of support she received from him was allowed him a deliberately-in accordance with the.

But the judge rejected that, saying he had not been satisfied, the ex-wife could find work that pays a lot better than that, taking into account his or her age, lack of skills and significant time out of the labour force.

In his reasons, Griffin said, the husband enjoys a good standard of living. "He lives in West Vancouver home, Qualicum Beach, and is the second home to the retirement of the substantial savings and earn a great income which make him continue to accumulate assets and savings," he wrote, even if the ex-wife of living is rather modest in comparison with the "."

The couple asked that their names from those of the Court of justice.

The judge wrote in his reasons that he was satisfied there was no good reason to point out that most of the other people who go to resolve their differences in the public courts "does not have the luxury of anonymity.". "

But he closed because no one has yet objected to the request, he would leave the place of the prohibition for an indefinite period of time.

jseyd@nsnews.com

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