Category: Separation Questions

Why is there no information that I can find on what a wife is required to be paid for spousal support? I'm in Palliative Care and I've been told I get fifty percent of his gross pay...pensions, investments, insurance policies ..I was told that one is to remain in my name as a benefactor of […]

I live in a common law relationship for 14 years and we have a 4 years old child. We just move to BC 3 months ago for my partner's job because of his promotion. When we lived in Quebec, I had a decent job(53k per year) so we shared all the bills and now because […]

Recently my wife has asked me for a divorce. I still live in the our jointly owned house with our 2 children and we share a bank account that the bills come out of. She is stating that I have to pay half the bills although she makes double the amount I do. Do I […]

My  Ex common law spouse and I have been officially separated for a year and have signed documents claiming no financial/spousal support for either of us. I make quite a bit for money. As of recently I think he is financially strapped. He received $80,000 and many expensive items We had purchased together. As of […]

Me and my common law partner have been in a relationship for 6 years. He was financially and emotionally abusive to me so I decided to separate from him. We have a child together and since I had nowhere to go I just moved out to a different room and have been living there for […]

I am a permanent resident of Canada, sponsored by my husband of 5 years. he has asked me for a divorce. He claims he pays me $16,000. thru his business and he owns our home. Am I entitled to half the matrimonial home and $16,000. for spousal support?

I separated from my ex 11 years ago. We never went through lawyers. He made less than I at the time of separation. We each had our child 50% of the time and each provided equally. Now he is on social assistance, I pay for everything for our child, help him (when he runs out […]

I was common law with a man until 10 years ago. I am living common law with a new partner now but there was no legal seperation from the first man. We remained very close till the day he died. Now that he is gone his work has contacted me about his pension. I have […]

Nothing much has changed. We still live in the same house, raise our kids, eat meals together and celebrate holidays and events as a family. We still run a business together. My paycheque is considered his. Nobody at work or in our social circles know that we have marital problems, other than a handful of […]

My spouse and I have decided to separate. We are still living in the same house and plan to do so until approximately January 2015. We live in separate rooms. I was recently told by a family lawyer (not retained, just 30-minute free consultation) that we cannot choose a date in the future to be […]