Spousal support may be based on the circumstances that existed when a separation agreement was signed or a court order was made. Those circumstances can change. A payor may retire. Someone may lose their job. A recipient may remarry or begin living with a new partner. Each of these events can raise legitimate questions about whether spousal support should continue at the same amount—or continue at all. But none of them creates one automatic result under Ontario family law. Th

Spousal support may have been reasonable when an agreement or court order was made. Years later, the financial circumstances of one or both former spouses may look very different. A job may be lost. Someone may retire. Income may increase or decrease substantially. Health may affect a person's ability to work. But a change in circumstances does not automatically mean spousal support changes too. Where someone is asking a court to vary an existing spousal-support order, the fi

Signing a separation agreement can bring much-needed certainty to a difficult period. But circumstances do not always stay the same. A spouse may lose a job, retire, experience a significant change in income or enter a new relationship. When that happens, one of the first questions may be whether the spousal support terms in the agreement can change too. The answer depends on what the agreement says, how the support obligation is structured and what legal process applies to c