Can a debt incurred by one spouse to support the other before the other spouse is ordered as a debt?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from House v. House, 2012 BCSC 197 (CanLII):
Debts incurred by a spouse to support him or herself before support is ordered are unenforceable against the other spouse as a debt, but can be taken into account in a division of family assets: Young v. Young, 1993 CanLII 34 (SCC), [1993] 4 S.C.R. 3 at 133.
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