In what circumstances will a common-law relationship be broken up?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from McDonald v. McDonald, 2015 BCSC 951 (CanLII):

In Bennett v. Scanlan, 2009 BCSC 668, Dardi J. summarized the analysis arising from the breakdown of a common-law relationship as follows at para. 74:

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