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2012, c.107
- Marital Property Act
Detailled Table of Contents
Current to 1 January 2024
Marital Property Act
1
Definitions
1
DIVISION OF MARITAL PROPERTY AND DEBTS
2
Joint responsibilities of spouses
3
Application for division of marital property
4
Rights of surviving spouse
5
Survival of actions
6
Exclusion of specified family assets from division
7
Unequal division of marital property
8
Division of non-marital property
9
Division of marital debts and consideration of tax consequences
10
Orders of Court
11
Interim orders
12
Financial statements
13
Order respecting confidentiality of financial statement
14
Realization of security or charge on property
15
Presumption of resulting trust
2
MARITAL HOME AND HOUSEHOLD GOODS
16
Description of marital home
17
Marital home owned by corporation
18
Spouses’ equal rights to possession
19
Disposition of interest in marital home
20
Spouses’ rights on disposition
21
Spouses’ right to redemption or relief against forfeiture
22
Application by spouse or interested party respecting marital home
23
Order for exclusive possession
24
Discharge, variation, suspension of order
25
Interim orders
26
Spouses’ right to possession of household goods
27
Order in respect of household goods
28
Termination or variation of order
29
Order to pay for wrongful disposition of household goods
30
Registration of notice of order in respect of household goods
31
Consideration of circumstances by Court
32
Effect of sale or the giving of a security interest in household goods without consent of spouse
3
DOMESTIC CONTRACTS
33
Definitions
34
Marriage contract
35
Domestic contract
36
Separation agreement
37
Execution of domestic contract
38
Capacity to contract
39
Best interests of child paramount
40
Effect of chastity provision
41
Transitional provisions
42
Paramountcy of domestic contract provision
43
Court may disregard provision of domestic contract
4
GENERAL
44
Application by interested third party respecting property rights
45
Transitional application of Act
46
Habitual residence
47
Application of Act to property
48
Orders registrable under Registry Act
49
Effect of statutory right to division or possession of property
50
Dower