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Common Law Some parents aren’t married. They chose to live common law rather than getting married. When they stop living together, they don’t need to get a divorce, because there is no marriage to end. But they do need to decide what will happen to their kids and how they will divide the things they own. The laws about custody and access, or who kids live with when parents separate, are the same for married people as they are for people who live together but aren’t married. But the
laws about dividing the things they own together are not the
same for common-law couples as they are for married couples.
The laws are also different in different parts of Canada.
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