Your figures, run under New Brunswick's own rules — the division the statute actually sets out, not a generic 50/50. Rough figures are fine; the answer appears as you type and nothing is sent anywhere.
Once you know the figure, the real work is keeping track of it: every value you entered above will arrive again by letter — revised, argued, and revised again over months.
Upload each one as it arrives — theirs and yours.
Every value, date and claimed exclusion, with the exact sentence it came from.
Their $380,000 house becomes $420,000? You’ll know which letter did it, and when.
Marital Property Act, RSNB 2012, c 107, read at the province’s own official source. This section is generated from the same verified rules the arithmetic runs on.
| The model | The divisible property itself is divided, presumptively equally, with exemptions coming off the top to their owner. |
|---|---|
| Who it covers | MPA s.1 "spouse" means a married person; s.3(1): each spouse is entitled to have the marital property divided in equal shares. |
| What it’s valued at | not fixed by the Act — the figures you enter set the date this calculation reflects. |
| Something owned before the relationship | It depends on what it is — and the Act's test is use, not kind. A family asset — the home, household goods, a vehicle, an account the family ran on, a camp or a boat the family used — is marital property whether it was acquired before or after the marriage, and only a court's discretion under s.6 can take it out; anything else you owned before you lived together is outside the division altogether, growth and all. This calculator asks that question of every item, because the answer is what the Act turns on. |
| What a court can change | It may divide unequally where equal shares would be inequitable (s.7); exclude a family asset acquired before the marriage or by gift where including it would be unfair and unreasonable to its owner (s.6); and reach property that is not marital at all where one spouse impoverished the marital property or the result would otherwise be inequitable (s.8). The figure here is the equal division the Act starts from. (MPA ss.6, 7 and 8) |
New Brunswick's Marital Property Act applies to married spouses only — "spouse" means a married person, and no period of living together brings a couple under it.
It depends on what it is — and the Act's test is use, not kind. A family asset — the home, household goods, a vehicle, an account the family ran on, a camp or a boat the family used — is marital property whether it was acquired before or after the marriage, and only a court's discretion under s.6 can take it out; anything else you owned before you lived together is outside the division altogether, growth and all. This calculator asks that question of every item, because the answer is what the Act turns on.
It is the division the statute starts from. It may divide unequally where equal shares would be inequitable (s.7); exclude a family asset acquired before the marriage or by gift where including it would be unfair and unreasonable to its owner (s.6); and reach property that is not marital at all where one spouse impoverished the marital property or the result would otherwise be inequitable (s.8). The figure here is the equal division the Act starts from.