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SUPREME COURT OF NOVA SCOTIA
(FAMILY DIVISION)
Citation: Barnes v. Barnes, 2012 NSSC 21

Date: 20120118
Docket:
SFHMCA-059649
Registry: Halifax

Between:

Nelson Claude Barnes

Applicant

v.

Eudora Beulah Barnes

Respondent

LIBRARY HEADING

Judge:                        The Honourable Justice Elizabeth Jollimore

Heard:                       January 12, 2012

Decision:                  January 18, 2012

Summary:                 Application to terminate spousal maintenance contained in separation agreement registered as court order.  Husband’s income had decreased: maintenance was decreased. 

Key words:               spousal maintenance, variation, termination

Legislation:             R.S.C. 1985 (2nd Supp.), c. 3, sections 15.2(6) and 17(7)
Maintenance and Custody Act, R.N.S.N. 1989, c. 160, sections 4, 37(1) and 52(1), 52(3)

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