What duty does a healthy spouse owe to a sick one when the marriage collapses?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Schaldach v. Schaldach, 2015 ONSC 1574 (CanLII):
McLachlin J., as she then was, posed a question in the first line of her reasons in Bracklow v. Bracklow, 1999 CanLII 715 (SCC), [1999] 1 S.C.R. 420 that is also posed by the case now before the court: What duty does a healthy spouse owe a sick one when the marriage collapses?
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