In a long-term marriage, is standard of living equal to income?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from James v. James, 2016 BCSC 292 (CanLII):

In long marriages, equality of standard of living, which may or may not be the same as the equality of income, may be a just result: Yemchuk v. Yemchuk, 2005 BCCA 406.

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