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Originally Posted by Five-hole
If she's worried about that, she should be filing for divorce pronto. Not sure how it works down there, but in Alberta you can divorce immediately if there's been abuse and I believe you don't need consent. Then she can go after his assets and get something.
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In theory you can divorce immediately if there is abuse, however finding a lawyer or judge to actually put through that paperwork is the harder part. They don't like doing this immediate divorce and many will refuse to do so and prefer you be separated for a year and have restraining and parenting orders in place that will be rolled over onto the divorce. They want to give the other party a chance to response about money and property matters.
Even if you do get a "quick" one, it could be held up in courts for a year and cost more money then waiting for a year and doing it the normal way. Again, many lawyers will talk the abused person into doing it this way because the quick divorce isn't.