British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Kamani v. Sharif, 2010 BCSC 987 (CanLII):
In Wallace v. Wallace, [1999] B.C.J. No. 2019, Low J., as he then was, said the following at para. 11: . . . Where the marriage (including any period of pre-marriage cohabitation) was five years or less and one spouse contributed little or nothing to the acquisition of the family asset being considered, in the absence of special circumstances, that spouse will receive 10% to 20% of the asset.
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