Cross-Appointments

'I mean we have an imperative FOR US that we WANT to FIND the PAYOR (emphasis hers!) because obviously we want to avoid people going on social assistance and if they have no other source of income that's what's going to happen." - Helena Jaczek on TVO

That decision cited Malcolm v. Malcolm (1919), 46 O.L.R. 198 (H.C.J.), aff’d (1920), 46 O.L.R. 609 (S.C., App. Div.), which connected the general principle that a husband is to provide maintenance for his wife “in proportion to his ability so to do” (p. 200) back to the laws of England.  Quebec Civil Law has espoused this principle at least since the Civil Code of Lower Canada was enacted in 1866, stating that maintenance is to be granted “in proportion to the wants [du besoin] of the party claiming it and the fortune of the party by whom it is due”:  art. 169. - http://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/2311/index.do?r=AAAAAQAPImNoaWxkIHN1cHBvcnQiAQ