What is the test for equitable sharing of the economic consequences of a broken marriage?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Gill v. Gill, 2002 BCSC 983 (CanLII):
The legislation and the authorities require an equitable sharing of the “economic consequences of the marriage and its breakdown”: Bracklow v. Bracklow, 1999 CanLII 715 (SCC), [1999] 1 S.C.R. 420; Moge v. Moge, 1992 CanLII 25 (SCC), [1992] 3 S.C.R. 813.
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