Greetings. My common law partner of 17 years and I are separated and going through the motions of splitting up assets, selling the house, etc. I was the major breadwinner in the realtionship ($100k+) while she did work (~45k / year) up until our kids were born 4 years ago. She will be going back to work within the next few months and I expect her to return to a job of $40k to $50k per year. I had been contributing to her RRSP (spousal) for years and she and I are nearly equal.
I had received a pension contribution from my past companies which has been rolled into a LIRA and I currently have a RPP with my employeer (total is about $60k). Given a common law realtionship I didn't think that she was entitled to my pensions but I would like clarification. Is she entitles to half?
We are civil and working through this ourselves and quite civil with each other. She has went to a couple lawyers and got terrible advice...conflicting, wrong, etc hence my request for assistance.
I had received a pension contribution from my past companies which has been rolled into a LIRA and I currently have a RPP with my employeer (total is about $60k). Given a common law realtionship I didn't think that she was entitled to my pensions but I would like clarification. Is she entitles to half?
We are civil and working through this ourselves and quite civil with each other. She has went to a couple lawyers and got terrible advice...conflicting, wrong, etc hence my request for assistance.
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