The doctrines of constructive and resulting trusts have been developed primarily to resolve the inequity surrounding the division of property following marital breakdowns. However, this is not to say that the doctrines are limited to relationships between spouses. In order to establish the existence of a resulting trust, a person must show that he or she had made a contribution towards the acquisition of the property and that there was a common-intention that the non‑titled person should have a beneficial interest in that property (Rawluk v. Rawluk, 1990 CanLII 152 (SCC), [1990] 1 S.C.R. 70 at paragraph 18).
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