Property Asset Pool Calculator
Most people separate with their finances scattered across a dozen logins and a drawer of paperwork. This tool helps you pull your assets and liabilities into a single list you can print and bring to your first appointment.
General information only, it does not value anything, and it does not work out how property may be divided.
Reviewed by Jomandie van der Merwe
Senior Solicitor
Property Asset Pool Calculator
Most people separate with their finances scattered across a dozen logins and a drawer of paperwork. This tool helps you pull your assets and liabilities into a single list you can print and bring to your first appointment. General information only — it doesn't value anything, and it doesn't work out how property may be divided.
Assets $0
Include everything either of you owns, whether it is held in one name or in both names. Values are generally assessed as at the date of the agreement or final hearing, not the date of separation. Financial resources you do not own outright — for example an interest in a trust, or an expected entitlement — are treated differently from property and are not captured here.
Liabilities $0
Include all debts owing, whether they are in one name or in both names. Since 10 June 2025 the nature of a liability and the circumstances in which it was incurred may be considered separately.
This is the total value of what you have entered, being assets less liabilities. It is not a division, an entitlement or a prediction of any outcome. Whose name an asset or debt is in does not decide how it may be divided.
Please read. General information only. This calculator adds up the figures you enter. It does not value any asset, and it does not work out how property may be divided between you and the other party. It is not legal advice, not a valuation and not a prediction of any outcome.
How property is actually dealt with. Since 10 June 2025 the Family Law Act 1975 (Cth) sets out the steps a court follows: identify each person's legal and equitable interests in property and their liabilities; consider each person's contributions; consider each person's current and future circumstances (which can include the effects of family violence, health, care of children and any material wastage of property); and make an order only if it is just and equitable to do so. Two people with the same figures can reach very different results. No outcome can be promised.
Superannuation. Superannuation is included in the total above because it is generally treated as property, but it is not cash. It usually cannot be withdrawn until a condition of release is met, and splitting it requires its own process and valuation method. Different types of superannuation interests are valued in different ways, and the balance shown on a member statement may not be the value used.
Companion animals. Since 10 June 2025 pets kept mainly for companionship are dealt with under separate provisions and not simply as ordinary property.
Full disclosure. Both people have a duty to give full and frank financial disclosure. Using this tool does not satisfy that duty.
Western Australia. If you were in a de facto relationship in Western Australia, property division is generally dealt with under the Family Court Act 1997 (WA) rather than the Family Law Act 1975 (Cth), and the 10 June 2025 changes described above may not apply to you. Please get advice from a Western Australian lawyer.
Your privacy. The figures you enter stay in your browser. Nothing is sent to us or stored on our website. See our privacy policy for how we handle personal information.
For advice about your own situation, please speak with a family lawyer.
What actually goes into the pool
Everything counts including the things in one name only.
The house, the savings, the shares, the car, the business, the debts. It doesn’t matter whose name is on the title, or who paid for what. If either of you owns it, it goes in.
Superannuation counts too.
It’s treated as property and it can be split. But it isn’t cash, you generally can’t touch it until you retire, and the number on the statement isn’t always the number the court uses.
There’s no automatic 50/50.
This is the biggest misunderstanding in family law. The court isn’t required to make any order at all, and it doesn’t start from half. It looks at what each of you contributed, then at where each of you stands now and will stand in future, your health, your income, who’s caring for the children, whether there was family violence. Two couples with identical figures can end up in very different places.
A few things this tool doesn’t capture.
An interest in a trust, or money you expect to receive one day, may still matter, but it isn’t an asset that can simply be split, so it isn’t counted here. And values are assessed at the date you settle, not the date you separated.
You both have to show everything.
There’s a legal duty to disclose your full financial position, and it doesn’t go away. Hiding an asset is the fastest way to have an agreement set aside years later.
Next step
Bring your printed list to our Maroochydore team. We can tell you what’s actually in the pool, what’s missing from it, and where you realistically stand.
Legal Disclaimer
This calculator is a general information tool. It adds up the figures you enter. It doesn’t value anything, it doesn’t decide how property will be divided, and it isn’t legal advice. Using it doesn’t create a lawyer–client relationship.
It reflects the property settlement framework in the Family Law Act 1975 (Cth) as amended by the Family Law Amendment Act 2024, in force from 10 June 2025.
Reviewed by Jomandie van der Merwe, Senior Solicitor. Last reviewed [15 July 2026].
Liability limited by a scheme approved under professional standards legislation (personal injury work exempted).
You've got a number. What does it mean?
A total isn’t an answer. What matters is what’s actually in the pool, what’s missing from it, and how contributions and circumstances change the picture, and that depends on facts a calculator can’t see.
Print your list and bring it in. We’ll go through it with you.