Is financial dependence a factor in determining whether two people are spouses?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Kneller v. Greenwood, 2015 BCSC 1410 (CanLII):

No single factor is dispositive of the issue of whether two people are spouses. The court must consider the relationship as a whole and consider all the various objective criteria. Financial dependence is not an essential ingredient. Nor is the subjective belief of one of the parties that they are not spouses determinative: Weber v. LeClerc, 2015 BCSC 650 at paras. 10 - 12.

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