What is the test for determining whether a relationship is marriage-like?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Nicoll v Webster, 2018 BCSC 547 (CanLII):

Evidence of an "expectation" on either side that the relationship is intended to be of "lengthy, indeterminate duration" is helpful to assessing whether a relationship is "marriage-like": Weber v. Leclerc at para. 23. There is no such factual foundation here. Indeed, I accept that while he was living in the respondent's home, the claimant had a five- to six-month intimate relationship with another person and held himself out to her as living "alone" with his daughter in North Vancouver.

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