Thompson v Thompson - [2015] 1 NZLR 593

Relationship property — Separate property — Business owned by parties transferred to trust — Business sold after parties separated — One party giving covenant in restraint of trade in return for payment — Whether payment separate property or relationship property — Parties agreed to treat trust property as in effect relationship property — Whether court to exercise discretion to declare payment relationship property — Property (Relationships) Act 1976, ss 8(1)(e), 8(1)(l) and 9(4).