Legal Cost Canada publishes the assumptions behind its calculators. The family-law legal-cost calculator is a broad budgeting model, not a court-fee schedule or a Canadian fee survey.
Primary official sources
- Justice Canada — 2025 child support table look-up. Justice Canada says the base amount uses the number of children, the paying parent's province or territory, and the paying parent's before-tax annual income. It also warns that the base amount is often not the final amount.
- Justice Canada — Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines. Justice Canada states that the SSAG are not law, do not determine entitlement, and that difficult calculations may require specialized software.
How province-specific content is handled
Province-specific pages are only added when the court route, procedure, forms, fees, terminology and source material for that province have been researched. BC Provincial Court, BC Supreme Court and courts in other provinces use different rules and forms, so those systems are not treated as interchangeable.
What the tools do not do
These tools do not decide entitlement, interpret legislation for an individual user's facts, predict a judge, or replace province-specific legal advice. Where a calculation depends heavily on difficult tax/legal assumptions, the site should either expose those assumptions or not claim to calculate the result.
What “Last reviewed” means
A review date means the page was checked against the primary official sources listed on it. It does not mean a lawyer reviewed the page unless we explicitly say so. We do not change review dates automatically just to make content appear fresh.
See our Corrections & updates policy for how we handle rule, form and calculation changes.