What is the test for unequal division?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Stetco v. Stetco, 2013 ONSC 3103 (CanLII):
The test for an unequal division is a high one. The accepted standard of unconscionability requires circumstances that go beyond unfairness, harshness or injustice: see Parmigiani v. Parmigiani, [2006] O.J. No. 1268, at para. 91.
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