Is it appropriate to treat an increase in pre-relationship debt as family debt?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from C.R.L. v S.L.L, 2019 BCSC 2103 (CanLII):
I read C.P. v. K.W.A. as authority for the proposition that it may be appropriate, depending on the facts, to treat an increase in a pre-relationship debt as if it were family debt. However, the outcomes in C.P. v. K.W.A. and in Bishop v. Wang were reasonable and fair on the facts in those cases because of the lifestyle or investment decisions made by those parties, and not simply because the debt increased over time.
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