Keywords:
Introduction -- Section 79 - no marital property, no starting point of equality, and no presumptions -- A brief survey of case law in the [so called] 'big money' cases - origins of the argument -- The holistic approach to the assessment of contributions, and the prohibition on compartmentalising or quarantining either the types of contributions or the periods during which contributions are made -- 'Special' contributions - not a binding principle or rule of law, nor a legitimate guideline -- The size of the pool of property does not of itself effect the approach to the assessment of contributions -- The springboard argument -- Assessment of post separation contributions in the context of large asset pools -- The legitimacy of the use of comparable cases to guard against the 'wilderness of single instance' decisions -- Marrying a spouse v divorcing a trust