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A lower court was correct in finding a wealthy plastic surgeon in contempt of court and giving him a jail sentence after he left the country and stopped paying support to his ex-wife Leaka and their children, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday.
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Dickie, a plastic surgeon who practised in Sarnia, Ont., moved to the Bahamas in 2002 to be with his new wife and their two children, and immediately stopped paying child and spousal support.
According to his lawyer, Dickie paid support for 10 years after he separated from Leaka Dickie in 1991, but stopped when he ran out of money.
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In 2004, Kenneth Dickie returned to Canada for a hearing and was found in contempt of court for failing to comply with a court order for the letter of credit.
He served 45 days in jail and returned to the Bahamas, where he operates the Bahamas Institute of Plastic Surgery. Canadian court orders cannot be enforced there.
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The full story is
here.
The most important part and basically all I needed to know was
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She obtained another judgment from Ontario Superior Court that ordered her ex-husband to provide her with a $150,000 letter of credit and provide another $100,000 as security to cover her potential court costs.
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Not her nor their children need that much money to survive, I don't care what anybody says. But what I find extremely perverse is that
men are actually forced to finance their own legal enemies! He must cover her potential court costs - court costs of a woman with whom he is in a legal dispute? I know this is not new, but every time I'm amazed by the sheer travesty of justice when I see this stuff.
Oh, and gotta love what the judge said:
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The top court recognized that divorce contributes to the "feminization of poverty," she added.
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This has to be the most pathetic attempt at a joke I've seen in a while.
P.S.: I don't know how marriage business is in Bahamas, but the guy is IMO pretty much crazy to get married again. He didn't learn his lesson, I guess. Well, sooner or later he'll run out of places to hide
11th-February-2007
