Compensatory benefit, marital regime and marital property disparity of spouses. By Barbara Régent, Lawyer.

In accordance with articles 270 and 271 of the Civil Code, one of the spouses may be obliged to pay to the other a benefit designed to compensate, as far as possible, for the disparity which the breakdown of the marriage creates in the respective conditions of life. In determining the amount of this benefit, the judge shall take into account in particular "the estimated or foreseeable assets of the spouses, both in capital and in income, after t…