What is the difference between a marriage contract and a commercial contract?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Asselin v. Roy, 2013 BCSC 1681 (CanLII):
Procedural fairness in family related matters is paramount. Different considerations apply in the negotiations of contracts between spouses, on the one hand, and commercial transactions, on the other. As was said in Rick v. Brandsema, 2009 SCC 10 at para. 46:
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