Sentences with phrase «children blameworthy»

Such a conceptual formulation does not aim at making children blameworthy but rather focuses on the perspective that, within a family system, all the members are contributors to the interactional process.

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There are also two general rules that apply to such scenarios: 1) retroactive child support extends back three years from the date the paying spouse is given notice (for example by the fact that an application for an adjustment to support is launched with the court), unless there has been blameworthy conduct; and 2) the child must be a «child of the marriage» — and therefore eligible to receive support — at the time the application is made.

Next, the test for whether retroactive support should be granted involves a court considering: 1) the reasons for delay, 2) any blameworthy conduct by the paying parent; 3) the circumstances of the children; and 4) any hardship experienced by the paying parent.

The court also considered the other enunciated factors: in law, «blameworthy conduct» could include failure to pay child support (which was not the case here), but the refusal to disclose income had to be viewed against the fact that the mother did not request disclosure until 2011, which was almost 13 years after the initial child support order had been made.

In doing so the Judge decided that the mere fact of not having paid child support was at the high end of blameworthy conduct.

Surrey blameworthy conduct and retroactive support cases involve an assessment of the conduct by a paying spouse that can affect how far back a correction or start date for the right amount of child and spousal support goes.