Difference between revisions of "Basic Principles of Property and Debt in Family Law"

Under the ''Family Relations Act'', married spouses shared in all property that was "ordinarily used for a family purpose." This meant that you didn't need to look at who owned something on paper, how something was acquired, or whether property was acquired before or during the relationship; what mattered was how the property was ''used''. For most couples ''everything'' they had wound up being ordinarily used for a family purpose in one way or another.