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Originally Posted by HeartsOfFire
That's correct, three years.
But after one year, we can jointly file our taxes as a common-law couple and Revenue Canada won't bat an eyelash.
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Ok, thats why I was thinking a year.
Point still stands though, if you are talking about replacing a lifelong marriage with a lifelong live-in-girlfriend.
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Originally Posted by username
Well after just going through this I can tell you that a common law relationship doesn't really mean anything unless I person can prove that they have been unjustly enriched. I'm sure some of the lawyers on this board could verify that for us.
As I understand it, what's yours is yours. The only entitlement a common law spouse can have to "your stuff" would be if they can somehow prove that they contributed to your increase in weath. So if I own a house and my gf moves in, she's not entitled to anything unless she can prove that she contributed to increasing the value (paying part of the mortgage, doing renos etc).
At least that's how I understand it......
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I am operating under the assumption that someone living together, in the same manner a married couple would as was mentioned in the post I quoted, would be sharing their expenses including that of housing and its maintain, child care etc. This would then entitle them to the same portion of your joint increase as if you were married.
I have never been divorced, nor separated from a common-law spouse, so I might be wrong on these facts (or confusing them with US based precedents).