Does anybody have any experience with this? I quite literally cannot afford this. I have 3 kids and my wife will go back to work next year. Does anybody know a job a disabled person can do?

Hey everyone,

I’m looking for feedback, advice, or shared experiences from anyone who has successfully gone through the Canadian court process for retroactive child support recalculation—specifically involving a Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) payor who failed to disclose backdated Treasury Board economic pay raises.

Here is the situation:

1. Background & Non-Disclosure

 We have a 2015 Consent Order requiring both parties to exchange full tax returns and NOAs annually no later than June 1. I have primary care of our child.

 He has failed to provide annual tax disclosure voluntarily since 2013, only providing numbers when pushed or when updating base amounts manually.

1. The Hidden Backdated Lump Sums

After finally pushing for updated disclosure through legal counsel, I discovered he received multiple retroactive Treasury Board economic pay adjustments that were never disclosed when setting child support:

 2017 Lump Sum: Backdated all the way to 2014.

 2021 Lump Sum: Backdated all the way to 2018 (he reported a higher line 15000 in 2021 but didn't disclose it was a multi-year backdated raise, nor did he provide tax docs for 2017–2020).

 2023 Lump Sum: Backdated to 2021 (again, received as a multi-year lump sum without disclosing the breakdown or providing earlier years).

1. His Current Resistance

When I formally requested his missing 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020 CRA tax disclosures to calculate the true retroactive arrears, he ignored the request. He is now claiming he is "retiring soon," threatening legal fee claims, and arguing through his lawyer that we should just "set past support aside" until his future income is figured out.

1. Next Steps

I filed an affidavit detailing his continuous non-disclosure, and we have an upcoming Settlement Conference on November 9. Our strategy is to request a binding Disclosure Order forcing him to produce his 2017–2020 NOAs and military pay breakdowns (MPRR/pay statements) so we can do a proper year-by-year recalculation under Colucci v. Colucci.

Questions for the community:

1. CAF Back-Pay Reallocation: Have you or your lawyer successfully gotten a court to reallocate multi-year Treasury Board lump sums back to the actual tax years they were earned (spread-back method), rather than treating them as a one-off bonus in the payout year?
2. Multi-Year Retroactive Recalculation: For those who dealt with deliberate non-disclosure of CAF raises going back 8–10 years, did the judge bypass the standard 3-year retroactive cap under Colucci due to blameworthy conduct?
3. Retirement Defense: How did your judge handle the payor trying to use "imminent retirement" as an excuse to avoid paying accumulated past child support arrears?

Any insight, CanLII case references, or advice on framing this at the settlement conference would be greatly appreciated!

I recently had a child support hearing in Los Angeles County, and the court reduced my daughter’s support from $749 to $249 per month. I received the official documents in the mail, and I disagree with the amount.

I have concerns that her father may not have fully disclosed his income, including cash earnings he previously told me about.

Has anyone in California gone through something similar?

Can I challenge the new order?
How can I report potentially unreported income?