What are the implications of the Supreme Court's decision to re-apportion the value of a property owned by one party to one party in a family law case?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from To v. Owston, 2015 BCSC 1403 (CanLII):

First, a complete re-apportionment of a family’s only significant asset in favour of one of the parties is extremely rare; Kaur v. Ram, 2006 BCCA 527 at para. 23.

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