A West Vancouver lawyer who is close to $ 700,000 per year makes a request to significantly lower support payments to his exwife refused.
The advocate identified in court documents only as "C.D."-has an average of $ 57,000 per month for the last three years and was paying his ex-wife "A.B." $ 11,500 per month since the couple divorced in 2008.
The husband recently went to Court, asking that his support payments gradually lowered to $ 5,000 a month more than two years.
He asked that his ex after three years be cut. The lawyer, 53, who owns homes in West Vancouver and Qualicum beach along with both a Corvette, argued that his ex-wife, 50, a stimulus must be self-sufficient if he's dropping his own income when he starts to cut back on his work schedule provides. The lawyer also claimed that his ex could sell her home and move into a condo in North Vancouver, the difference to contribute to her income to invest.
But Justice Susan Griffin disagree, saying that both the man and the woman during their 15-year marriage contributed to the success of his career.
"The risk that the wife could not find a lucrative career after the kids were grown and the man was well established in his career is a risk that both the man and the woman should share just as they should share in the opportunity that she took on the career of the man ... the woman does not have to bear the cost of that career choices are disproportionately" she wrote.
Griffin ordered the lawyer his ex-wife $ 10,000 per month for an indefinite period of time continue to pay.
According to court documents, when first married, made the man less than $ 50,000 per year with a Toronto law firm. The woman worked as a stewardess. After the couple's two daughters were born, and the family moved to Vancouver, women stayed at home to look after them, while the man a high-powered career built in company law. He often worked evenings and weekends and was often away on business trip.
During that time, at one point of the spouse income climbed to more than $ 800,000 in a year.
"At the end of the marriage, the wife was a middle-aged woman without any developed work skills or important job experience while the spouse on the other hand, was now a leading lawyer with an established career in Vancouver," wrote the judge.
The woman has since been developing a business as a home stager, but anticipates earn only about $ 20,000 a year.
The lawyer claimed that his ex-wife business plans were unrealistic and that the level of the support they got from him had allowed her to consciously under service.
But the judge rejected that, saying that she was not convinced that the ex-wife might find a job that paid much better than that, given her age, lack of skills and significant time out of the workforce.
Griffin said In her reasons that the man enjoys a good standard of living. "He lives in a house in West Vancouver, Qualicum Beach and has another house in significant savings for retirement and is earning a great income that will allow him to continue to accumulate assets and savings," she wrote, while the ex-wife living standard is "very modest in comparison."
The couple asked that their names be kept outside of a judgment of the Court.
The judge wrote in her reasons that she was not convinced there was a good reason for that-pointing at most other people who go for the public right to settle their disputes "do not have the luxury of anonymity ...."
But they still had reigned since nobody opposed the request, they would let the ban in place for the moment.
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