Despite acknowledging existing financial support is insufficient, the federal government has offered no specific relief package for women whose ex-partners can’t afford child or spousal support due to lost income during the novel coronavirus pandemic.
This is support women, advocates, lawyers and politicians say is badly needed. “There are so many women being just swept under the carpet,” said Anne Thompson.
Anne Thompson is a pseudonym, as Global News has agreed to conceal her real name due to the seriousness of allegations surrounding her divorce.
Desperate for help, Thompson reached out to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office after she said her ex-husband paid just $500 of the roughly $7,000 in support payments he owed since the novel