What is the substantive fairness of a substantive fairness agreement?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Zhu v. Li, 2009 BCCA 128 (CanLII):

In assessing the substantive fairness of the separation agreement, the trial judge applied the two-step test established in Hartshorne v. Hartshorne, 2004 SCC 22, [2004] 1 S.C.R. 550 at para. 47:

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