Ontario’s Family Law Act mandates that the property acquired by spouses during marriage, called “net family properties”, is to be shared equally upon marriage breakdown, with some narrow exceptions. One such exception is – “Damages or a right to damages for personal injuries, nervous shock, mental distress or loss of guidance, care and companionship or the part of the settlement that represents those damages” – that are to be excluded from equalization of net family properties.
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