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A Langley man who failed to disclose his soaring income has been ordered to pay more than $500,000 in retroactive child support for his two Vancouver Island daughters.

The man, who did not show up in court, failed to report dramatic increases in income over many years, Justice Barbara Young said in a decision released in B.C. Supreme Court in Courtenay this week. Names were not published in the decision.

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“It is clear to me that the respondent (father) in this case is guilty of blameworthy conduct in the extreme,” Young said.

The judge found that the father gave misleading information about his income when a separation agreement was signed in 2003 and never corrected it, and his income has always been “dramatically higher” than what was disclosed in that agreement.

“In this case, the children have done without support from their father for many years and their mother has struggled to support them.”