§ 872.140.Ordering Allowance, Accounting, Contribution, Other Compensatory Adjustment,

Co-owners rarely contribute equally to a property's expenses. One might have paid the mortgage, taxes, or repair bills; another might have collected rent without sharing it. This section gives the court broad equitable authority to sort that out as part of the partition action itself, ordering an allowance, an accounting, contribution, or whatever other compensatory adjustment fairness requires among the parties.

The standard is equity, not a rigid formula -- the statute directs the court to act "according to the principles of equity," which lets it weigh the specific facts of who paid what and who benefited from it. This authority works alongside the court's general case-management power under § 872.120 and often gets resolved together with the accounting a referee may be asked to perform when the court determines lien priorities under § 872.630.