SUPREME COURT OF NOVA SCOTIA
(FAMILY DIVISION)
Citation: Gouthro v. Gouthro, 2011 NSSC 214
Date: 20110615
Docket: 1206-5648
Registry: Sydney
Between:
Laurie Lee Gouthro
Petitioner
v.
John James Gouthro
Respondent
LIBRARY HEADING
Judge: The Honourable Justice Theresa M. Forgeron
Heard: January 26 and February 17, 2011, in Sydney, Nova Scotia.
Written Decision: June 15, 2011
Subject: Family Law
Issue: Access; Child Support; University Expenses; Retroactive Maintenance.
Result: ∙ Father awarded overnight, holiday, and extended access to 16 year old daughter, with diabetes.
∙ Child support, table amount, payable for child living at home; less than the table amount for child living in New Brunswick and attending university eight months of the year.
∙ Father and mother to contribute to son’s university expenses.
∙ No retroactive maintenance where father assumed son’s $28,000 student loan debt, and had contributed to the children’s expenses in the past, and where mother received a $3,500 unequal division of the assets.
∙ Costs of $2,500 awarded to mother because of father’s four year failure to disclose income information contrary to the interim court order.
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