Sentences with phrase «where equal division»

Equitably typically means equally, but there are exceptions where an equal division will not necessarily be equitable.

Courts considering this language have emphasized that the high standard of «significant unfairness» will only be met in limited situations where equal division would produce obvious or compelling unfairness.

Not exact matches

(iii) In big money cases where a clean break can be achieved a wife with ordinary career prospects is likely to have been compensated by an equal division of the assets and consideration of how the wife's career might have progressed is unnecessary and should be avoided.

Abby served as a Ford Foundation Summer Fellow in the Education and Employment Division of the National Women's Law Center, where she worked on issues relating to equal pay, Title IX and sexual harassment, and pregnancy discrimination in the workplace.

In Washington state, where community property is divided in a «fair and equitable,» rather than equal manner, the person who has little current earning capacity will push for 60 % of the joint property while the employed spouse will seek a 50/50 division and inch up slowly to agreeing to 51 %, then 52 %, etc..