Does the wife have to wait until after the date of her husband's death to claim his pension?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Wallace v. Wallace, 2012 BCSC 1216 (CanLII):
In Misic v. Misic, 2006 BCSC 732, the wife applied in 2006 to claim her share of the husband’s pension, as the court had ordered in 1987. The wife was successful on that part of her application:
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