Wilson v Wilson - [1991] 1 NZLR 687

Husband and wife — Matrimonial property — Matrimonial Property Act 1976 - Deductible debts — Whether a particular debt has been incurred in the course of a common enterprise carried on by the husband and the wife — Whether ss 20(5)(a) and 20(5)(b) are inconsistent — Whether s 20(2) affects the deductibility of personal debts under s 20(5)(b) - Circumstances in which a personal debt of one spouse is to be met out of matrimonial property — Whether there is a distinction between cases where a spouse pays his or her personal debts out of matrimonial property prior to the hearing and cases where the debts remain unpaid — Matrimonial Property Act 1976, s 20(2), (5) and (6).

Husband and wife — Matrimonial property — Division of matrimonial home — Whether there were "extraordinary circumstances" rendering equal sharing "repugnant to justice" - Matrimonial Property Act 1976, s 14.

Husband and wife — Matrimonial property — Division of matrimonial property under s 15 - Assessment of contributions under s 18 - Whether a spouse who brings property to the marriage can fairly be said to have created matrimonial property where it is the operation of the statute which converts that previously separate property into matrimonial property — Matrimonial Property Act 1976, ss 15 and 18.