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Dividing Property and Debt in Family Law Matters (view source)
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====Dividing Excluded Property==== | ====Dividing Excluded Property==== | ||
Under s. 96 of the ''Family Law Act'', the court may not make an order dividing excluded property between spouses except in two situations, if there's property outside the province that can't be divided under s. 109, discussed below, or if it would be "significantly unfair" not to divide the excluded property: | Under s. 96 of the ''Family Law Act'', the court may not make an order dividing excluded property between spouses except in two situations, if there's property outside the province that can't be divided under s. 109, discussed below, or if it would be "significantly unfair" not to divide the excluded property in light of the length of the spouses' relationship of one spouse's contributions to excluded property owned by the other spouse: | ||
<blockquote><tt>(a) family property or family debt located outside British Columbia cannot practically be divided, or</tt></blockquote> | <blockquote><tt>(a) family property or family debt located outside British Columbia cannot practically be divided, or</tt></blockquote> | ||