Widowers Pension question

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I am still in a predicament where my X husband of 6 years will not divorce me without contesting it. I do NOT want to see another wall of a court room as long as I live. We do have a legal separation which states we are "financially separate from eachother and no change in financial status will change this".
Here's the thing, I just heard about a widowers pension and that the X possibly gets it. I would think he would freak to think I would gain anything from his death. If I used this against him stating as long as we are still married I would get a widowers pension, would I be correct in saying this? Since we have a final order does this eliminate me from this?
I am just grasping for straws...
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The Canada Pension Plan survivor's pension is paid to the person who, at the time of death, is the legal spouse or common-law partner of the deceased contributor (see definition of "spouse" and "common-law partner"). If you are a separated legal spouse and there is no cohabiting common-law partner, you may qualify for this benefit.

The above info is from Survivor Benefits

Are you talking about the CPP survivor benefit? or a company pension? I don't know about a company's retirement pension benefits - you would have to research that through them
 
There is nothing he can contest. Everything is settled. But he has told me he will contest it anyway to get me to court. He will lose obviously, but it's just his controlling behaviour. We live 3 hours apart and because the original separation happened down in his jurisdiction, the court would be down there again. I do not wish to be involved with any of that again.
I already discussed this on here before. But I have to ask, if he has nothing to contest, would I STILL have to show up for a court hearing just to have it thrown out? It all seems silly to me. My thought is, "take a day off work, drive down, sit and wait for hours for our case to be called, find out the judge had to leave for something and have it remanded".. story of my life. I'm not up for any of that again.
 
I don't believe, if there are no outstanding issues, that he CAN contest it. You don't need his consent to apply for divorce. Call the upper canada law society, pay a couple bucks and find out how to get it through at this point if there are no other matters to be settled. Good luck!
 
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