Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines: The Revised User's Guide (English, HTML)

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2021-08-06

This Revised User’s Guide (which we sometimes call the “RUG”) updates and replaces the two previous versions: the original User’s Guide released in July 2008 with the Final Version of the Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines (SSAG); and the New and Improved User’s Guide which we produced in March 2010. The previous versions of the User’s Guide have frequently been cited by the courts in their decisions, and by lawyers in their arguments about the Advisory Guidelines. This version provides us with an opportunity to update the past five years of SSAG case law, as well as to address some practical issues which have emerged since 2010. The SSAG have now been in use for more than ten years, starting with the Draft Proposal in January 2005 and then the Final Version of 2008. Since the SSAGs are well-known and consistently used across the country, judges and lawyers are more often digging deeper into difficult and unexplored issues. Further, there is much more cross-fertilization amongst provinces and territories today than there was in the early days of the SSAG. The Revised User’s Guide is not intended to provide a comprehensive survey of the case law. That would be impossible, since…

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