When a long-term partnership has broken down, what is the contribution of the former partner to the value of assets acquired after the dissolution of the partnership?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Tratch v. Tratch, 1981 CanLII 774 (BC SC):
I concur with the comments of Anderson J. in Margolese v. Margolese, that a long marriage should be regarded as a partnership and that it would be a mistake to attempt to calculate the spouse's respective contributions too finely. In that case, however, the partnership subsisted until shortly before trial. Where, as in the case before me, the partnership had substantially broken down many years before trial, the diminished contribution of the former partner to assets acquired thereafter should be taken into account.
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