In article , Chip C wrote:

The problem is that, as long as that freezer duplex outlet is a split
receptacle, you need to have the two hot legs on linked breakers. That
means that if anything on your new receptacles tripped its breaker,
your freezer's breaker would go out. This is not good wiring practice,
and may actually be against code, in that code often requires such
things as freezers and sump pumps to be on their own circuits, for
obvious reasons.

You're right about it not being good practice -- but please cite an example of
Code requiring a freezer or a sump pump to be on a dedicated circuit.

You should plan to quit using the other half of the outlet that's at
the freezer, in fact I'd put a simplex outlet in there. Then rewire
that outlet so it's entirely on one leg; the red leg, say. Then I'd
run all the downstream outlets off the black leg. You'd put one of
them close enough to pick up whatever you were plugging into the other
half of the freezer outlet.

Still has the same problem with disconnecting the entire circuit...

Now, because you don't have both legs feeding any one "strap" (ie, any
two outlets on the same duplex device) I *think*, depending on the
exact wording of code that applies in your area, you can now unlink
the two breakers.

Nope. That was permitted under the 2005 and earlier versions of the
NEC, but it violates the 2008 NEC, and (I believe) violates the CEC going back
*many* years.