Download This PaperIn Sickness and in Health? Spousal Support and Unmarried Cohabitants
Canadian Journal of Family Law, Vol. 24, No. 2, p. 317, 2008
59 Pages Posted: 27 Sep 2009
Date Written: December 20, 2008
Abstract
When an intimate relationship breaks down and one of the people involved seeks money from the other, should it make any difference to the law whether or not they were formally married? This article argues that it should make a difference, at least when spousal support is being sought and the parties were never parents together. Winner of the 2008 Falconer Memorial Student Essay Competition in Family Law.
Keywords: unmarried cohabitants, spousal support
JEL Classification: K39, J12
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Semple, Noel, In Sickness and in Health? Spousal Support and Unmarried Cohabitants (December 20, 2008). Canadian Journal of Family Law, Vol. 24, No. 2, p. 317, 2008, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1478948
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