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 ==Exceptions to the Advisory Guidelines formulas==
-If adjusting support within the ranges doesn't work and if restructuring support doesn't work, the Advisory Guidelines allows parties to depart from the numbers produced by the formulas to accommodate their special circumstances. The authors of the Advisory Guidelines are clear that these exceptions are to be treated as a last resort.
+If adjusting support within the ranges doesn't work and if restructuring support doesn't work, chapter 12 of the Advisory Guidelines contains exceptions, which are recognized categories of departure from the formula outcomes that have been included in the Advisory Guidelines so that parties can accommodate their special circumstances. According to a 2016 update from Professors Rogerson and Thompson, in ''[https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/fl-lf/spousal-epoux/ug_a1-gu_a1/p12.html#sec12n Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines: The Revised User's Guide]'', there has been "a steady increase in the use of the [Advisory Guidelines] exceptions, better every year, and a growing body of case law applying them, including appellate level decisions".
 ===Greater need for compensation===