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Laws Pertaining to Marriage and Its Dissolution – 1974

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Category:

LEGISLATION

Sub-Category:

Sub-Category: GENERAL

Resolution Number:

600.10.24

Club:

Victoria

Province:

British Columbia

Year:

1974

Status:

Resolved

Background:

Comments:

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT BPW Canada urges its Provincial Organizations, through their member clubs to study laws pertaining to matrimony in their respective provinces, with a view to re-writing such legislation in order to recognize the concept of equal partnership in marriage; AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT upon the dissolution of marriage, each party will have a right to an equal share in the assets accumulated during such marriage, otherwise that by gift or inheritance received by either spouse from outside sources.

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Article ID: 13036