Retroactive support is when you receive financial assistance or benefits from a certain date in the past, rather than just from the current date onwards.
Sentences with «retroactive support»
However courts ordering retroactive support pursuant to provincial statutes have greater flexibility in tailoring the award to fit the circumstances (see para. 127). (macleanfamilylaw.ca)
The court also streamlined the support amount to take into account various credits, setoffs, adjustments relating to child support and extraordinary expenses, and factored in retroactive support owed by the father as well. (familyllb.com)
On appeal at the Supreme Court the Judge decided to overturn the 19 years of retroactive support, awarding support to the date that the mother first asked for child support (in 2013) instead. (hhlaw.ca)