What is the threshold that must be met to invoke section 6 of the Divorce Act?

Nova Scotia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Sauer v Vilandré, 2019 NSSC 166 (CanLII):

In Morris v. Morris, 2005 ABQB 540 Justice Veit outlined the threshold that must be met for subsection 6(1) of the Divorce Act to be invoked. He states:

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