How have the courts in BC dealt with the division of assets between spouses in a long-term marriage?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Xie v Yuan, 2018 BCSC 941 (CanLII):
Courts have commented that as a “general proposition where there is a short marriage, and a grossly disproportionate contribution towards the acquisition of the family assets as between the spouses, the division of assets should not result in a financial windfall to the party who made the smaller contribution”: Stefanek v. Stefanek, 2009 BCSC 55 at para. 129. Importantly in that case, the judge accepted that non-financial contributions were worthy of recognition at para. 133.
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