Acts and Regulations

2012, c.107 - Marital Property Act

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Unequal division of marital property
7Despite sections 2, 3 and 4, the Court may make a division of marital property resulting in shares that are not equal if the Court is of the opinion that a division of the marital property in equal shares would be inequitable, having regard to
(a) any agreement other than a domestic contract,
(b) the duration of the period of cohabitation under the marriage,
(c) the duration of the period during which the spouses have lived separate and apart,
(d) the date when the property was acquired,
(e) the extent to which property was acquired by one spouse by inheritance or by gift, or
(f) any other circumstances relating to the acquisition, disposition, preservation, maintenance, improvement or use of property rendering it inequitable for the division of marital property to be in equal shares.
1980, c.M-1.1, s.7
Unequal division of marital property
7Despite sections 2, 3 and 4, the Court may make a division of marital property resulting in shares that are not equal if the Court is of the opinion that a division of the marital property in equal shares would be inequitable, having regard to
(a) any agreement other than a domestic contract,
(b) the duration of the period of cohabitation under the marriage,
(c) the duration of the period during which the spouses have lived separate and apart,
(d) the date when the property was acquired,
(e) the extent to which property was acquired by one spouse by inheritance or by gift, or
(f) any other circumstances relating to the acquisition, disposition, preservation, maintenance, improvement or use of property rendering it inequitable for the division of marital property to be in equal shares.
1980, c.M-1.1, s.7