What is the test for equitable sharing of the economic consequences of a broken marriage?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Gill v. Gill, 2002 BCSC 983 (CanLII):

The legislation and the authorities require an equitable sharing of the “economic consequences of the marriage and its breakdown”: Bracklow v. Bracklow, 1999 CanLII 715 (SCC), [1999] 1 S.C.R. 420; Moge v. Moge, 1992 CanLII 25 (SCC), [1992] 3 S.C.R. 813.

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