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Special expenses are shared between the payor and recipient. These provisions of the Guidelines are intended to ensure that, if either parent incurs significant additional expenses for the child's needs or activities, ''both'' parents will share the cost on the principle that it is in children's best interests to have such needs met or to participate in such activities. | Special expenses are shared between the payor and recipient. These provisions of the Guidelines are intended to ensure that, if either parent incurs significant additional expenses for the child's needs or activities, ''both'' parents will share the cost on the principle that it is in children's best interests to have such needs met or to participate in such activities. | ||
If an expense if found to qualify as a special and/or extraordinary expense under the s. 7(1) and (1.1) definitions, the court may make an order that both parties pay additional amounts, on top the usual Guidelines basic amount of support, to cover all or a portion of the cost of the expense. | If an expense if found to qualify as a special and/or extraordinary expense under the s. 7(1) and (1.1) definitions, the court may make an order that both parties pay additional amounts, on top of the usual Guidelines basic amount of support, to cover all or a portion of the cost of the expense. | ||
===Qualifying expenses as "special and/or extraordinary"=== | ===Qualifying expenses as "special and/or extraordinary"=== | ||