Difference between revisions of "Dividing Property and Debt in Family Law Matters"

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===Property and debt outside British Columbia===
===Property and debt outside British Columbia===


Division 6 of Part 5 of the ''[[Family Law Act]]'' has a complicated test that the court must apply to determine whether it can and should make orders dividing property and debt between spouses when another court could also make orders about the same people and the same property; this was discussed earlier in this section under the heading "Determining jurisdiction."  
Division 6 of Part 5 of the ''[[Family Law Act]]'' has a complicated test that the court must apply to determine whether it can and should make orders dividing property and debt between spouses when another court could also make orders about the same people and the same property. This was discussed earlier in this section under the heading "Determining jurisdiction."  


If the court decides that it can make orders, it can, in certain circumstances, also make orders about property located outside the province under s 109(2):
If the court decides that it can make orders, it can, in certain circumstances, also make orders about property located outside the province under s 109(2):
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