What is the law for a jointly held property under the Partition Act?
Nova Scotia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Darlington v. Moore, 2011 NSSC 152 (CanLII):
[56] The mother has made an application under section 28 of the Partition Act for sale of the property and division of the proceeds. In the recent decision of Soubliere v. MacDonald, 2011 NSSC 98, Jollimore J. set out the law in relation to jointly held property under the Partition Act:
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