This provides for a division of matrimonial property on divorce.

The Provincial Court also has limited family law jurisdiction, except for divorce proceedings and the division of matrimonial property.

The Superior Court of Justice has sole jurisdiction in divorce cases and in family law matters where there are claims for the division of matrimonial property.

Among his most famous dissents was his opinion in Murdoch v. Murdoch, where he was the sole judge to vote in favour of the wife of an abusive husband in a case regarding the division of matrimonial property.