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It's important to know that the Canada Revenue Agency has its own definition of separation, and requires people to have lived separate and apart for 90 days before considering them to actually be separated; once the 90 day period is over, the date of separation is the date the couple began to live separate and apart. | It's important to know that the Canada Revenue Agency has its own definition of separation, and requires people to have lived separate and apart for 90 days before considering them to actually be separated; once the 90 day period is over, the date of separation is the date the couple began to live separate and apart. | ||
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It is possible to separate | It is possible to separate and remain living under the same roof as your spouse. People sometimes do this when they simply cannot afford to make ends meet while maintaining separate homes or when neither spouse wants to leave the home and the children. | ||
In order for the courts to recognize this form of separation as a separation, the spouses must live as if they have completely ended the | In order for the courts to recognize this form of separation as a separation, the spouses must live as if they have completely ended the romantic aspect of their relationship. This usually includes sleeping in separate beds in separate rooms, opening separate bank accounts and closing joint accounts, separately performing household chores like laundry and cooking, not going out as a couple and so on. Either way, the spouses must stop behaving as if they are a couple. | ||
Becuase the date of | |||
===Desertion=== | ===Desertion=== | ||
