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18 Can. J. Fam. L. 9 (2001)
The Child Support Obligation of Step-Parents

handle is hein.journals/cajfl18 and id is 15 raw text is: TIE CHILD SUPPORT OBLIGATION OF STEP-PARENTS Carol Rogerson* Table of Contents I. Introduction ..................................................... 10 I1. Setting the Context: Social Science and Legal Policy .... ... 19 A. What Social Science Research Tells Us About Step-Families .......................... .............. ........ 19 B. The Pull of Conflicting Policy Imperatives .............. 27 C. Legal Choices: How Other Countries Have Dealt with Step-Parent Support Obligations ............. ... 37 III. Review of Current Canadian Case Law ................... 49 A. The thresholdfor liability: standing in the place of a parent ................................ .............. ........ 51 1. The legislative framework ...................... 51 2. Judicial inteipretation of the legislation ......... 57 (a) The law prior to Chartier ........................... 58 (b) The Chartier decision ................ ................. 64 (c) The case lawpost-Chartier ......................... 80 (d) Conchiding comments on the threshold for liability .................................. ........ 99 B. Assessment and apportionment ......................... 106 1. hIntroduction: assessment and apportionment prior to 1997 ................................................... 106 2. The fiamework of the guidelines ........................111 3. Chartier and issues of assessment ......................... 118 4. Case law under s. 5 of the guidelines ..................... 124 (a) Biological parent paying no support; step-parent pays the table amount .................. 126 (b) Biological parent paying support; some reduction of step-parent's table amount or fidl payment by both parents? ...................... 133 (c) Discretionamy decision-making: the nature of the relationship and time-limits ......... 140 IV. Conch sion ................................... .............................. 151

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