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Living Common-Law: Your Rights and Responsibilities

Publication type: 
Training / Education Manual
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Agency: 
Legal Services Society BC
Sponsor: 
The Law Foundation; BC Provincial Government; The Notary Foundation
Date: 
2005
Pages: 
53
Summary: 
This manual, produced by the Legal Services Society of BC, provides information for same-sex and opposite-sex common-law partners in matters of child custody and support, property rights and finances, access to benefits (such as employment insurance or the Canada Pension Plan), and methods for dealing with separation in the legal system. The manual also provides information for common-law partners of a partner dies, and where to get legal help.
Keywords: 
Legal Services Society; legal issues; legal assistance; child support; adoption; welfare; pension; benefits; counselling; employment insurance (EI)