by Jonathan Martin | Nov 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
While un-married or “common law” couples in New Brunswick are not subject to division of marital property under the Marital Property Act, this does not mean that unmarried couples have no rights at all in one another’s property. As the term “common law” implies,...
by Jonathan Martin | Dec 5, 2021 | Uncategorized
The global Covid-19 pandemic, and the unprecedented government incursions into the rights and freedoms of Canadians that have resulted from it, represents a pressure test for the section 1 analysis first developed in R v. Oakes, [1986] 1 S.C.R. 103 and synthesized in...
by admin | Sep 30, 2021 | Uncategorized
The Marital Property Act, RSNB 2012, c 107, like other marital property legislation across Canada, contains a presumption that the property of both spouses is to be distributed equally between spouses upon the dissolution of the marriage.[i] This presumption is...
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