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Originally Posted by Mark Henry
My cousin's dad has been living with her mom's BF since she died in the early 80's, definitely a couple but never married.
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My understanding is that common law marriage occurs after one year:
Canada - Common Law Relationships
A CA court will probably consider that a "marriage" with her having rights of survivor.
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Originally Posted by Mark Henry
They lived in her house, but her dad brought in the cash assets from his house, investments, his pension, his wife's teachers pension, etc.
He was a timid guy obviously naive, who could be pushed around and let his common law wife handle all finances.
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Everything was in cash. She handled the money.
No evidence to trace back at all except multiple person's bank records which probably don't exist anymore.
Unless he had a separate trust and separate bank account set up for your side of the family,
And she illegally moved his money during a period of time when he was officially determined "incapacitated" (she shouldn't have been able to do this by law I think)
Then the money and the right to decide where it goes was probably hers.
I hate to be a downer and hope I'm wrong. She sounded like a peach of a woman.
Sounds like it's worth investigating at least.