In what circumstances will the court take no account of the amount of cash or other assets held by the husband in order to fund a compensation claim?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from M.S. v. M.M., 2015 BCSC 1599 (CanLII):

In Cochrane v. Cochrane, 2013 BCSC 2114 at para. 38, the court held that it would be unfair to take no account of distributive taxes where it concluded that the husband would have to withdraw a substantial amount of cash or other assets from his company in order to fund a compensation order.

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