Is there a prima facie case for entitlement in a short-term marriage?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Dainard v. Dainard, 1999 CanLII 1673 (BC SC):
Master Chamberlist canvassed the law including Tichner v. Tichner upon which he had earlier relied in Lafleur for the rather opposite position, and concluded that, at least in marriages of short duration, the law supported the proposition that a prima facie case for entitlement should be made out.
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