When one spouse's investment is put into a property that is jointly owned by that person, is there a presumption of advancement?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from S.E.V. v T.M.V., 2018 BCSC 30 (CanLII):
No presumption of advancement arises when one spouse’s investment is put into a property that is jointly owned by that person: see Hu v. Li, 2016 BCSC 2131. In that case, MacIntosh J. set out the correct approach to the presumption of advancement analysis when property from one spouse is transferred from one spouse to another. He said:
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