Boyd, J.-P. E.2018-08-022018-08-022016-01Boyd, J.-P. E. (2016). A Miscellany of Recent, Frequently Cited Appellate Child Support Decisions. Calgary, AB: Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family. Presented at the Family Law 25 Conference, Calgary & Edmonton, AB.http://hdl.handle.net/1880/107573The Federal Child Support Guidelines1 are now almost twenty years old, having come into force on 1 May 1997 as a regulation to the Divorce Act. 2 The Guidelines emerged from work begun by the Federal-Provincial-Territorial Family Law Committee in 1990 in response to widespread dissatisfaction with the determination and tax treatment of child support, and were implemented by government with the intention of helping parents, lawyers and judges set “fair and consistent” amounts of child support. 3 Over the years that followed, the Guidelines were adapted and adopted by most provinces and territories4 for the purposes of their local domestic relations legislation, and a relatively consistent body of case law developed interpreting the new regulation and addressing tricky issues like the amount of support payable for children over the age of majority, when the payor’s annual income is in excess of $150,000 and when parents have shared custody of their children.enunknown10.11575/PRISM/32750