A conviction for sexually abusing your granddaughter is not an acceptable reason to reduce your monthly child support payments, a B.C. On the one hand, the man didn't try very hard to find new work so that he could keep up with his child support, the judge said. The job troubles he experienced, then, "were natural consequences of his sexual interference with his granddaughter," Woods wrote. In the meantime, he'd been ordered by the courts to pay $413 a month in child support. Woods also increased the father's mandatory monthly payments from $413 to $425, explaining that federal child support guidelines have changed.

Source: CBC News October 25, 2018 10:52 UTC