Prince Edward Island
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D. Shannon Farrell, KC · Partner · Family · Charlottetown
80 Grafton Street, Suite 200, Charlottetown, PE C1A 7L9
Partner in the Charlottetown office with a focus on family law, administrative law and litigation, and training in mediation and collaborative practice. The firm also covers personal injury, employment law for employees and employers, home purchases and sales, and wills and estates.
Divorce and separation, parenting, child and spousal support, and dividing property. Divorce follows the federal Divorce Act; property division comes from Prince Edward Island's Family Law Act, whose property rules apply to married spouses.
Divorce is federal law, so the rule is the same across Canada: the only ground is marriage breakdown, usually shown by living apart for one year or more. You or your spouse must have lived in Prince Edward Island for a full year before applying.
Under the Family Law Act each spouse's 'net family property' is worked out, and the spouse with the smaller amount is entitled to half the difference. The application must be made by the earlier of two years after a divorce, or six years after the spouses begin to live separate and apart.
No. For property division the Family Law Act defines a spouse as a married person, so the equalisation rule does not cover unmarried couples. The Act's support rules are wider and can cover unmarried partners.
For Charlottetown, divorce and matrimonial property cases go to the Family Section of the Supreme Court, which sits at the Sir Louis Henry Davies Law Courts, 42 Water Street.
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