Law360 Canada ( January 8, 2025, 11:24 AM EST) -- Appeal by husband from two trial orders relating to storage costs and value of his inherited interest in a property in Palm Desert, California and order varying sealed bid process for dividing family property, replacing it with an order for private sale of properties. The appeals arose from orders made following a lengthy trial concerning a high-conflict family law proceeding with extensive family property in dispute. The trial focused on child support and identifying and dividing family property. The parties were married in 1995 and had two children. Their relationship lasted more than 24 years. At the time of their separation in March 2014, they had been married for more than 18 years. The husband’s family had a long-standing retail business, Edward Chapman Ltd. (ECL), and other corporate holdings, including a company holding commercial properties in Vancouver (Oborne). In 1991, a family trust was distributed, with the husband receiving shares in Oborne. The parties and family corporations acquired real estate during the marriage. After the separation, goods were stored in the former family home, a warehouse, and a private storage site, incurring significant costs. The husband appealed the finding that the wife was the successful party and the order for him to pay special costs. The issues to be determined were whether the judge erred in the following: varying the trial order by replacing the sealed bid process with an order that the properties be sold by private sale; ordering that the husband be solely responsible for storage costs; in limiting the husband’s interest in the Palm Desert Property to a one-third interest and in ordering the husband to pay special costs....