I recall during my settlement talks that they looked mainly at the financial separation date for assessing property division. That is, the date at which we no longer had comingled finances.
Under the grounds for divorce here, it requires a "separation for the purposes of ending the marriage" and allows trial reconciliations of up to 90 days that don't reset the date.
It grazes the edge of perjury but I was certainly open to picking whatever date she wanted including all the way back to BD. It wasn't necessary though because things dragged out. But again - my ex hasn't seemed to be in a hurry about anything.
On BD H52, W50 T27, M26 S21, D23 BD-9-Mar-16 D-15-Jan-18 Final-19-Apr-18 I am a storyteller. The story may do you no good. But a story is never for the listener. It is always for the one who tells
