Digest: Straker v Lavoie, 2018 SKQB 76

• Date: March 02, 2018

Reported as: 2018 SKQB 76

Docket Number: FLD 337/15 JCR , QB17459

Court: Court of Queen's Bench

Date: 2018-03-02

Judges:

• Wilson

Subjects:

• Family Law � Custody and Access � Interim
• Family Law � Child Support � Interim
• Civil Procedure � Queen�s Bench Rules, Rule 15-19, Rule 15-49

Digest: The respondent brought an application to vary an interim parenting and child support order made in January 2017. When the order was made, the respondent was working in Lloydminster in the oil industry on a two-week, one-week-off basis and earning $100,000. The interim order granted the parties joint custody with the principal residence of their four-year-old daughter to be with the petitioner mother. The respondent�s parenting time would occur during his week off when he was at home in Regina. Child support was set at $842 per month based upon the respondent�s 2015 income. His share of s. 7 expenses was 57 percent. The respondent lost his employment in Lloydminster and the only work he could obtain in Regina was installing siding. His income had dropped and he predicted it would be only $33,600. Due to his changes in employment and income and the fact that he was residing only in Regina, the respondent sought to change the interim order to permit joint equal shared parenting on a rotation of two, two and three days and to reduce his child support payment.
HELD: The application was granted in part. The court noted that the respondent had...