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Under section 10 of the Child Support Guidelines, the court can make an award of child support that is different, usually less, than would be required by the Guidelines tables where a person would suffer ''undue hardship'' if the Guidelines table amount of child support were paid.
It's important to know that just claiming that paying the table amount causes you hardship won't be enough to justify a child support order that is lower or higher than the Guidelines table amount. The hardship caused by payment of the table amount must be an ''undue'' hardship. According to [http://canlii.ca/t/1f0r2 Van Gool v. Van Gool ], a 1998 case from the Court of Appeal, "undue" means <i>''exceptional'', ''excessive '' or ''disproportionate</i>''. In the 1999 Supreme Court case of [http://canlii.ca/t/1d1px Chong v. Chong], the court held that establishing undue hardship requires proof of a "high threshold" of hardship, and that problems like a lower standard of living or financial obligations for a new family are not sufficient.
Section 10 of the Guidelines provides a list of circumstances that may cause undue hardship: