What is the test for determining whether a husband and wife are living separate and apart?

Ontario, Canada


The following excerpt is from Gajic v. Lazeo, 2019 ONSC 4690 (CanLII):

The concepts of ‘cohabitation’ and ‘living separate and apart’ are interdependent for the purposes of a spousal support analysis. An exhaustive review of the law as it pertains to these concepts is contained within the recent decision of Justice Chappel in Al-Sajee v. Tawfic: 2019 ONSC 3857.

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