How have the courts in B.C. dealt with the issue of domestic disputes between the parties in a marriage settlement?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Maricic v. Maricic, 1981 CanLII 625 (BC SC):
It has been stated often that domestic disputes should be settled between the parties. As a matter of public policy it would then be most inappropriate to go behind marriage settlements three or four years after the event to simply determine whether the deal the parties made in the past has turned out more beneficial to one than the other: see Dodds v. Dodds, B.C.S.C. Anderson J., 26th August 1980 (not yet reported). The agreement, so far as it went in the case at bar, was neither unconscionable nor improvident at the time it was made. The "variation" I make is due to the matters omitted in the original considerations.
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