Martina and Billie-Jean are a married couple age 60 living in Ontario. They have no children. Martina has come to you for financial advice. She and Billie Jean have separated, but have not dealt with all the financial details of the separation. Martina wants to retire at age 65 with pre-tax income of $150,000 p.a. that will last until age 95. She and Billie Jean have agreed that Martina will pay spousal support of $3,000 a month until age 65, and $2,000 per month thereafter, and these amounts are in real dollars and will be indexed to inflation.

They will keep their own entitlements to CPP of $14,000 p.a. each if started at age 65 and $7,000 p.a. OAS. In addition, Martina will get an indexed pension of $100,000 p.a. that she does not have to share with Billie Jean. What they have not settled is division of assets and Martina would like to know how that will work. They have no debts except for current credit card balances which they will share equally and so we will ignore them in this question. Here is what they have:

Asset	At separation Date	At marriage date
Martina Jaguar	$40,000	Not owned
Billie Jean Volkswagen	5,000	Not owned
Joint bank a/c	10,000	Each contributed half
Martina RRSP	50,000	20,000
Billie Jean RRSP	150,000	100,000
Unregistered investment account Martina	1,000,000	250,000
Unreg account Billie Jean	400,000	200,000
House	2,000,000	1,000,000

When they got married, Billie Jean owned a house worth $500,000 and they lived in it for two years. Then she sold that house for $700,000 and they used the proceeds as part of the purchase of the house that they now live in and that is listed in the table.

Required:

1. Explain to Martina the asset division under Ontario law and calculate how much she and Billie Jean will each get. 
2. They will sell the house and Martina will use $1 million from her share of the assets to buy a smaller house. During the next five years she will save $50,000 p.a. in her RRSP each year (she has enough contribution room carried forward), and her share of the assets will also earn more. Use a real pre-tax rate of 3% to determine if she will have enough at retirement to provide the income she says she wants.

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