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# Lola vs Eric goes to the Supreme Court of Canada

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18 January 2012

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Anne France Goldwater is Lola’s former lawyer and said, “What hasn’t happened in Quebec, uniquely in Quebec, unlike the rest of Canada, and it’s very weird, is that common-law couples have not attracted the same protection.  So you have a whole chapter of our civil law called THE FAMILY, that  completely excludes common-law families.”

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