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Originally Posted by xchange
WOMEN’S CHARTER (CHAPTER 353)
69.—(4) The court, when ordering maintenance for a wife......shall have regard to all the circumstances of the case including the following matters:.........
(f) the standard of living enjoyed —
(i) by the wife before her husband neglected or refused to provide easonable maintenance for her;
Meaning is that you have to give your former wife the same standard of living she enjoyed during marriage-even if she commit
adultery/abandon the family ect2.
Ironically it means the higher the standard of living you provide for her, the more you have to pay for her maintenance after divorce.
Moral of the story-do not over indulge your wife as it may come back to haunt you.
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And no mention of maintaining the standard of living for the husband after divorce huh. In other word, only the lifestyle of the wife matters but not the husband. Such double standard in these days where women could be earning more than the man.