Bill No. 19 Marriage And Divorce Bill 2009 (2) The distribution of the property shall be in equal shares but shall not be less than one third of the value of the jointly acquired property unless a spouse can prove that the other spouse should be given less than half. (3) The court shall take into consideration the particular circumstances of each case when distributing the property and shall take into consideration— (a) the length of marriage or period of cohabitation; (b) age of spouse; (c) the contribution of each spouse to the acquisition, maintenance or improvement of the property including the contribution of a spouse towards the upkeep or maintenance of the property in cash or kind; (d) domestic work and management of the home; (e) the contribution of the immediate family or any contribution to the maintenance of the matrimonial home or which facilitates the acquisition of the property or matrimonial home by a spouse; (f) the economic circumstances of each spouse at the time of the distribution of the property, including the desirability to award the matrimonial home to a particular spouse or the right of a spouse who has custody of a child to live in the matrimonial home for a reasonable period of time; (g) the need to make reasonable provision for other spouses and their children as regards matrimonial property where the marriage is polygamous; (h) the period of cohabitation; (i) whether there is an agreement related to the ownership and distribution of the property in the best interest of the vulnerable spouse; 64