Does the Court care if only one of the spouses worked during the marriage?
Unless shown otherwise, the Court will presume that both husband and wife made a substantial financial or non-financial contribution to the acquisition of income and property while the parties were married to each other. That is to say, in a traditional case, where the wife “works” at home by raising the children, shopping for food, cleaning the house, and doing all the other things that are required to be a homemaker, the Court will normally presume that the wife’s contribution, although non-financial, was equal to that of the husband.
