Category: Child Support

Child Support: The Basics In Ontario the Child Support Guidelines are used to calculate and determine the monthly child support amounts paid by one parent to the other for the benefit of the child(ren).  Parents are legally obligated to support all of their dependent children. This is required as long as the child is a …

Child Support Guidelines Commentary What are the Child Support Guidelines? The Child Support Guidelines were introduced by the Federal government in 1997 (later amended in 2006 and again in 2012) and were later adopted by the province of Ontario. The Guidelines provide rules and tables to help calculate the support a parent, who does not have …