Excluded Property under the Family Law Act - Updates to Case Law and Trends

  • May 18, 2021

This meeting was recorded and can be viewed here.

Speakers Beatrice McCutcheon, Associate Counsel, Cook Roberts, and Christine Murray, Partner, Cassels Murray, provided a summary of the case law regarding the following topics in British Columbia:

  • Excluded property and the impact of excluded property being put into joint names - case law updates;
  • Updates regarding the presumption of advancement and how it is being treated.

This talk reviewed the case law since July 2019. If you would like to review the case law before that point please see "Excluded Property: A More Predictable Regime" by Scott L. Booth and Beatrice C. McCutcheon, CLEBC - July 4, 2019.

2021-05-18-Excluded-Property.pdf