Category: Vancouver Questions

I am a female and married my partner who is also a female. We do not live together anymore its been almost a year now because we have been going to counseling trying to work on our marriage. My partner had a sex change and is becoming a male and changed her name also and […]

My partner & I are considered common-law. We have a few month old baby together. I am German citizen with a Canadian permanent resident card and my partner is Canadian citizen. Our relationship doesn't look good. In case we separate, I would like to take my child to Germany and raise him there in a […]

All of our household expenses are paid by my salary and my husband saves most of his salary(at least 80%) in a separate bank account/RRSP's/Investments. Am I entitled to 50% of it?

My husband and I are separated for couple months now. We bought a condo together. But we reached an agreement that I will pay him back the money he contributed and he will transfer his interest in the condo to me which makes me the only owner of the condo. We applied for uncontested divorce […]

I moved to Canada with my husband 7 months ago. We have considered separation. If we do separate, I have no rights to live in Canada, and will return to the US. He has threatened to forbid me from leaving with our child. What are my rights to leave? with my child? Also, would this […]

My same sex partner and I are US citizens. We have never been a resident of Canada. We came to Vancouver in 2007 to get married. We would now like to file for divorce but we can't find any information about how same sex couples who were married in Canada but are non citizens of […]

My husband and myself married for 6 years, bought a property in 2010. Of which i used $40k of my personal pension funds for the down payment. If we divorce and sell the property, am I entitled to my $40k back from the proceeds of the property?