Category: Location Questions

If you are separated from your marriage spouse for less than a year with no legal separation agreement, and you start living with someone else in a common law relationship, and after 5-6 months that one has failed, which relationship takes precedent when it comes to eligibilty for pension splitting?

In the calculation of income used in determining my payment of support, should my $1000 per month student loan payment be deducted from the gross amount?

One year and a half ago, I was visiting Canada and I signed my marriage in Vancouver-BC and left Canada to my home country immediately. My spouse is a resident their and he lives and works in Saskatchewan. We want the divorce, where to apply it? Vancouver or Saskatchewan?

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 […]

i have a buisness of which I am the sole income earner. I had made my wife a 50 percent director in the buisness. Once i apply for seperation is she entitled to half of the company earngs after theb date of the seperation. Must I remove her from the directorship of the company to […]

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?

I have been living in the United States since 2009....I was scammed from a dating site....was told I had to change my last name to his and everything I owned....This is crap..I was w/him from 2007-mid 2009....I want my own name back and refuse to pay for an american divorrce when it was a stupid […]

my husband left in oct 2008 and moved to out west,never offered child support or spousal support,what is the time line or limit to file to get support..have been told by a few lawyers that it will be very costly to fight him.