(5) Subject to subsection (3), if the spouses» first common
habitual residence during the relationship between the spouses was in a jurisdiction in which a regime of community of property applies, property owned or acquired and debt owing or acquired during the relationship between the spouses that is property or debt to which the regime of community of property applies must be divided at the end of the relationship between the spouses according to that regime of community of property.
If you have the baby at home the child's
habitual residence during that period of time it its home.
Not exact matches
To recall, the issue before the ONCA was whether the
habitual residence of the two children had changed from Germany to Ontario
during the period of the father's time - limited consent so that the children were habitually resident in Ontario on the date that the consent expired.
The appeal in Balev involves the key issue of whether the
habitual residence of a child can change for purposes of the Hague Convention
during the period of a father's time - limited consent (which permitted the children to attend school in Canada).
This meant that a «time - limited» consent by one parent to relocate a child (on the facts, from Germany to Canada) could not amount to a unilateral change of the child's «
habitual residence»
during the consent period.
The basis of the Divisional Court's decision was that the children's
habitual residence had changed from Germany to Canada
during the consensual travel period, and thus the Hague Convention did not apply.
Where a child moves lawfully from one Member State to another and acquires a new
habitual residence there, the courts of the Member State of the child's former
habitual residence shall, by way of exception to Article 8, retain jurisdiction
during a three - month period following the move for the purpose of modifying a judgment on access rights issued in that Member State before the child moved, where the holder of access rights pursuant to the judgment on access rights continues to have his or her
habitual residence in the Member State of the child's former
habitual residence.
To find that a child's
habitual residence can be changed by the unilateral actions of one parent
during the period of a time - limited consensual absence undermines the purpose and efficacy of a carefully crafted scheme to deal with child abduction and wrong retention.
whether the courts might, in making a determination of
habitual residence in relation to an adolescent child who had resided in a place under the care of one of their parents, have regard to the child's own state of mind
during the period of
residence there in relation to the nature and quality of that
residence; and
This post will examine the issue of international child abduction under the Hague Convention regime from the perspective of «time - limited consent», namely whether the «
habitual residence» of a child can unilaterally be changed
during a time - limited consent period when one parent wrongfully removes or retains a child in another contracting state.
The issue before the Ontario Court of Appeal was whether the
habitual residence of the two children had changed from Germany to Ontario
during the period of the father's time - limited consent so that the children were habitually resident in Ontario on the date that the consent expired.
The Divisional Court judge disagreed with the initial findings and concluded that the
habitual residence had changed from Germany to Ontario
during the consensual, temporary travel period and that the Hague Convention did not apply (at para 22).