Basic Principles of Property and Debt in Family Law: Difference between revisions
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Family law lawyers describe the effect of a triggering event as "crystallizing" the spouses' interests in the family property because the triggering event makes each spouse the legal owner of one-half of the family assets in a way that is also binding on people outside the relationship, like creditors, trustees in bankruptcy, potential purchasers and so forth. After a triggering event happens, all a creditor can lien or seize to secure or pay a debt is the debtor's half-share of an asset, regardless of whether the debtor was the sole owner or the joint owner of the asset before the triggering event. | Family law lawyers describe the effect of a triggering event as "crystallizing" the spouses' interests in the family property because the triggering event makes each spouse the legal owner of one-half of the family assets in a way that is also binding on people outside the relationship, like creditors, trustees in bankruptcy, potential purchasers and so forth. After a triggering event happens, all a creditor can lien or seize to secure or pay a debt is the debtor's half-share of an asset, regardless of whether the debtor was the sole owner or the joint owner of the asset before the triggering event. | ||
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Under s. 81(b), the one triggering event under the ''Family Law Act'' is the ''date of separation'': | Under s. 81(b), the one triggering event under the ''Family Law Act'' is the ''date of separation'': |