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telco_mtl
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Re: renouncing a succession from an estate

said by DKS:

said by IamGimli:

Except for the fact that estate laws are not Canadian, they're provincial. Whether Québec is part of Canada or not is irrelevant for the topic at hand.

The comment was about law in general in Canada. We have a pastiche of laws and traditions, both Federal and Provincial.

but quebec civil law is a completely different animal, we have the civil code. Its one of the reasons lawyers and notaries dont have overlapping responsabilities. Lawyers cant settle and estate, notaries do. As well due to the civil code we are the only provice not recognizing common law marriages.

Gone
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said by telco_mtl:

we are the only provice not recognizing common law marriages.

Isn't it the other way around? What would be a common-law marriage and a legal marriage are treated the same way in Quebec? I heard something about how the majority of common-law marriages are actually in Quebec for this reason or something or other.

LazMan
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said by telco_mtl:

As well due to the civil code we are the only provice not recognizing common law marriages.

I refuse to beat my head against the wall further on this particular topic, other then the say that there is NO SUCH THING as common-law Marriage anywhere in Canada...

You are either married, or you are not.

DKS
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said by telco_mtl:

said by DKS:

said by IamGimli:

Except for the fact that estate laws are not Canadian, they're provincial. Whether Québec is part of Canada or not is irrelevant for the topic at hand.

The comment was about law in general in Canada. We have a pastiche of laws and traditions, both Federal and Provincial.

but quebec civil law is a completely different animal, we have the civil code. Its one of the reasons lawyers and notaries dont have overlapping responsabilities. Lawyers cant settle and estate, notaries do. As well due to the civil code we are the only provice not recognizing common law marriages.

I am well aware of that. I was born in Quebec and still have property in Quebec.

LazMan
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said by DKS:

I am well aware of that. I was born in Quebec and still have property in Quebec.

Ahh, that explains it....

DKS
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said by LazMan:

said by telco_mtl:

As well due to the civil code we are the only provice not recognizing common law marriages.

I refuse to beat my head against the wall further on this particular topic, other then the say that there is NO SUCH THING as common-law Marriage anywhere in Canada...

You are either married, or you are not.

Exactly. The term "common law marriage" is a non sequitur.

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said by LazMan:

I refuse to beat my head against the wall further on this particular topic, other then the say that there is NO SUCH THING as common-law Marriage anywhere in Canada...
You are either married, or you are not.

"Common-law Marriage" doesn't exist. "Living Common-Law" does, though.

Most people mean later when they use the former phrase.

LazMan
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said by Gone:

"Common-law Marriage" doesn't exist. "Living Common-Law" does, though.

Most people mean later when they use the former phrase.

True, but it still does not carry the rights and responsibilities that many think it does...

Anyways - way O/T - it's just a pet peeve of mine... (one of many, but that's always way O/T... )

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said by LazMan:

True, but it still does not carry the rights and responsibilities that many think it does...

The rights and responsibilities come into force when children and taxes are involved, and can sometimes be the opposite where they are more than people first thought

But yeah, off topic
telco_mtl
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said by LazMan:

said by telco_mtl:

As well due to the civil code we are the only provice not recognizing common law marriages.

I refuse to beat my head against the wall further on this particular topic, other then the say that there is NO SUCH THING as common-law Marriage anywhere in Canada...

You are either married, or you are not.

the supreme court last week upheld the fact that living together under the quebec civil code does not offer any rights or responsabilites no matter how many kids or years the couple was together.

bluebaron2
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The topic is succession from an estate not how common law marriages are treated in Quebec. If you all want to discuss that then please start a new thread. This side discussion is not helping the OP.