How long is a spouse required to continue to provide financial support for each other?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from Vandale v. Vandale, 2003 ABQB 407 (CanLII):
The comments by McLachlin J. in Bracklow v. Bracklow, 1999 CanLII 715 (SCC), [1999] 1 S.C.R. 420, at p. 25, are apt: The mutual obligation view of marriage also serves certain policy ends and social values. First, it recognizes the reality that when people cohabit over a period of time in a family relationship, their affairs may become intermingled and impossible to disentangle neatly. When this happens, it is not unfair to ask the partners to continue to support each other (although perhaps not indefinitely). Second, it recognizes the artificiality of assuming that all separating couples can move cleanly from the mutual support status of marriage to the absolute independence status of single life, indicating the potential necessity to continue support, even after the marital " break". Length of Time Spouses Cohabited:
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