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This chapter focuses on the division of property and debt between spouses. | This chapter focuses on the division of property and debt between married spouses and unmarried spouses. | ||
Under the provincial ''[[Family Law Act]]'', spouses are presumed to keep what each of them brought into their relationship and to share in the things they acquired during their relationship. The same rules apply about debt: spouses are presumed to share responsibility for the debts that accumulated during their relationship. | Under the provincial ''[[Family Law Act]]'', spouses are presumed to keep what each of them brought into their relationship and to share in the things they acquired during their relationship. The same rules apply about debt: spouses are presumed to share responsibility for the debts that accumulated during their relationship. | ||
