Does the trial judge conclude that the husband has control and possession of family assets of which he has no knowledge?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Atherton v. Atherton, 2001 BCCA 668 (CanLII):
The trial judge concluded (at para. 26) that the husband had control and possession of family assets of which the trial judge had no knowledge, but that the assets in the possession of the wife were the major assets. He again commented that, unlike Cunha v. Cunha, he did not infer that the undisclosed assets were equal in value to the disclosed assets.
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