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  "og:description": "The Lawyers Weekly covers Anne-France Goldwater's reaction to the Supreme Court's approach to long-term support changes in L.M.P. v. L.S."
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  description: "The Lawyers Weekly covers Anne-France Goldwater's reaction to the Supreme Court's approach to long-term support changes in L.M.P. v. L.S."
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# Top court maps out approach to support changes

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12 January 2012

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[The Lawyers Weekly](http://www.lawyersweekly.ca/index.php?section=article&volume=31&number=33&article=2)

Anne-France Goldwater of Montreal’s Goldwater, Dube, counsel for the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) and the DisAbled Women’s Network Canada (DAWN-RAFH) who intervened in _L.M.P. v. L.S._, said the groups were “thrilled” with the Supreme Court’s judgment.

“What

wanted to establish is that, where there is long-term support provided for in an agreement between a husband and a wife, a husband should not be able to come back with impunity and merely say: ‘We have been divorced this amount of time — cut the support,’ ” Goldwater said.

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