Difference between revisions of "Family Law Act Basics"

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===What is family property?===
===What is family property?===


''Family property'' is the property either or both spouses got after the date they began to live together or got married, whichever was first. ("Ordinary use for a family purpose," the test under the old ''Family Relations Act'', the law before the ''Family Law Act'', doesn’t matter under the new law.) Family property includes:
''Family property'' is the property either or both spouses got after the date they began to live together or got married, whichever was first. ("Ordinary use for a family purpose," the test under the old ''[http://canlii.ca/t/ldg3 Family Relations Act]'', the law before the ''Family Law Act'', doesn’t matter under the new law.) Family property includes:


*real estate,
*real estate,

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