MARITAL OR FAMILY PROPERTY - Equalization or division - Agreements - Contribution of parties

Law360 Canada ( May 28, 2025, 1:50 PM EDT) -- Appeal by wife from order of trial judge relating to property division and retroactive child and spousal support. The parties married in 1997 after living together for five years. They separated in 2014 after a 17-year marriage. Two days before marrying, they signed a comprehensive marriage agreement keeping all premarital and postmarital property separate, with limited exceptions. At marriage, the husband’s business interests were worth around $3 million. At separation in 2014, they were worth $85 million. By 2019, they were worth $127 million. The wife was a stay-at-home spouse responsible for household management and primary childcare, enabling the husband to grow his business interests. The issues were whether the trial judge erred in finding the marriage agreement operated fairly; by failing to order retroactive child and spousal support and lastly, by failing to divide the value of the parties’ post-marriage Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSPs)....
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