• Family Law Reform
• Couples and families
  • Marriage, civil union and de facto union
    • Marriage
      • Opposition to the solemnization of a marriage
      • Conditions of marriage
        • Legal age for marriage
        • Family relationship and marriage
        • Freedom from any bond or marriage or civil union
        • Free and enlightened consent
        • Presence at your marriage ceremony
      • Conditions for the solemnization of a marriage
        • Place of the marriage ceremony
          • Marriage solemnized outside Québec
        • Time and language of the marriage ceremony
        • Witnesses to the marriage
      • Preparation for marriage
        • Before your marriage ceremony
          • Officiants authorized to solemnize a marriage
            • Marriage solemnized by a close relative or friend
          • Interview with the officiant
            • Notice of publication of the marriage
            • Documents required for the interview with the officiant for your marriage
          • Marriage contract
        • During the marriage ceremony
      • Married name
      • Administrative fee for a marriage
      • Annulment or dissolution of a marriage
    • Civil union
      • Conditions of a civil union
        • Legal age for forming a civil union
        • Family relationships and civil union
        • Freedom from any bond or marriage or civil union
        • Free and enlightened consent to a civil union
        • Presence at your civil union ceremony
      • Conditions for the solemnization of a civil union
        • Place of the civil union ceremony
        • Time and language of the civil union ceremony
        • Witnesses to the civil union
      • Preparation for a civil union
        • Before your civil union ceremony
          • Officiants authorized to solemnize a civil union
            • Civil union solemnized by a close relative or friend
          • Interview with the officiant before the civil union ceremony
            • Documents required for the interview with the officiant for your civil union
            • Notice of publication of the civil union
          • Civil union contract
        • During the civil union ceremony
      • Administrative fee for a civil union
      • Opposition to the solemnization of a civil union
    • Officiant
      • Conditions for acting as an officiant
      • Legal steps in a marriage or civil union ceremony
        • Before the marriage or civil union ceremony
          • Notice of publication of the marriage or civil union (action taken by officiant)
          • Verification of the intended spouses’ eligibility
          • Dispensation from publication of a marriage or civil union
        • At the marriage or civil union ceremony
        • After the ceremony
      • Measures that may be taken against an officiant
    • Effects of marriage and civil union
      • Family patrimony
        • Residences used by the family
        • Earnings registered under the Québec Pension Plan
        • Partition of the family patrimony
      • Matrimonial regimes
        • Partnership of acquests
        • Separation as to property
        • Community of property
        • Changing a regime during a marriage or civil union
      • Declaration of family residence
        • Scope of the protection given to the family residence
        • Cancellation of a declaration of family residence
    • De facto union
      • Your rights
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      • Your protections
        • Breakdown of a de facto union
          • Cohabitation agreement
          • Family residence
        • Death
  • Parenthood
    • Filiation
      • Declaration of birth
      • How is filiation established?
      • How is filiation proved?
      • Choice of a child's name
        • Change of name
    • Parental authority
      • End of parental authority
      • Deprivation of parental authority
    • Adoption
      • Recognition of pre-existing bonds of filiation
      • Communication agreement
      • Information relating to identity or to establishing contact
      • Medical information
    • Tutorship to a person under the age of 18
  • Separation and divorce
    • Family mediation - Negotiating a fair agreement
      • Mediation: nature and goals
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      • Québec Family Mediation Day
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        • Registration and sessions calendar
      • Choice of a family mediator
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      • Content and procedure for the mediation session
      • Parents’ roles
      • Role of mediator
      • Duration and cost of mediation
      • Steps to take following mediation
      • Complaint against a mediator
      • Reference tools
    • Children: a joint responsibility
      • Main principles used to determine child custody
      • Child support
        • Child Support Payments Calculation tool
        • The Québec model for the determination of child support payments
        • Tables to determine the basic parental contribution
        • Exemption from making support payments to a former spouse via Revenu Québec
        • Collection and remittance of support payments outside Québec
        • Service administratif de rajustement des pensions alimentaires pour enfants (SARPA)
        • Homologation Assistance Service (HAS)
        • Cancellation of child support payments
      • Abduction of a child by a parent
        • Legal remedies in a case of interprovincial child abduction
        • Assistance of the Central Authority for Québec in cases of international child abduction
        • Situations in which it is not possible to secure a child's return
        • Contact the Central Authority for Québec
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    • Marriage or civil union
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        • How to apply for divorce?
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        • Cost of proceedings for legal separation or divorce
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      • Amicable divorce
        • Application for divorce based on a draft agreement
          • Who can file an application?
          • Filing an application
          • Preparing an application
          • Cost of proceedings for legal separation or divorce
      • One of the parties does not reside in Québec
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        • End of the de facto separation
      • Legal separation (separation from bed and board)
      • Dissolution of a civil union
        • Joint notarial declaration
        • Dissolution of a civil union granted by the court
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        • Obtaining a court judgment
      • Support payments for a former spouse
        • Exemption from making support payments to a former spouse via Revenu Québec
      • Partition of the family patrimony
      • Compensatory allowance
    • De facto union
      • Recourse based on a cohabitation contract
      • Will
      • Amicable separation
      • Obligation of support towards a former de facto spouse
      • Partition of employment earnings by former de facto spouses
    • Family law services provided by legal aid offices
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    • Non-judicial treatment of certain criminal offences committed by adults
    • Justice and mental health support program
• Your disputes
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      • Death or incapacity of a party
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      • Referral of an application to another district or court
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        • Technical requirements
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      • Payment of the amount claimed
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      • Stay of hearing at the Small Claims Division
      • Discontinuance of a case at the Small Claims Division
      • Recovery and destruction of exhibits
    • Small claims judgment
      • Judgment by default
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      • Forced execution of a judgment
      • Opposition to seizure following a decision at the Small Claims division
    • Cost of procedures and payment of Court costs
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    • Courts of appeal
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    • Which court will hear your case?
    • Stages in civil trials
    • Costs of a civil trial
  • Sending a formal notice before filing an application
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      • Objects or animals encroaching onto someone else's property as a result of superior or natural force
    • Protection of another person’s property
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    • Right to use a spring or watercourse
    • Fences and common walls
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    • Executing a decision of the Régie du logement
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• Your money and your possessions
  • Wills
    • Who can make a will?
    • Before making a will
      • Life insurance of the deceased
      • Wills and the obligation of support
      • Types of heirs
      • People who cannot inherit
      • Liquidators
    • Forms of will
      • Will made in the presence of witnesses
      • Notarial will
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    • Cost of preparing a will
    • Amending a will
  • Successions
    • What needs to be done if a close relative or friend dies
      • Certificate of death
      • Searching for a will
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        • Accepting or refusing the role of liquidator
        • Replacing the liquidator
        • The liquidator's remuneration
      • Accepting or refusing a succession
    • Partitioning of the family patrimony and liquidation of the matrimonial or civil union regime
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      • Inventory of property and notice of closure
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      • Payment of a succession’s debts
      • Delivery and partition of property
      • Succession with a will
        • Probating the will
        • Consulting a will
        • Liquidators
      • Dying without leaving a will
        • Degree of relationship
        • Representation of an heir
        • Distribution of the inheritance in a legal succession (table)
    • Unclaimed or refused successions
  • Voluntary deposit
    • Legal aspects of voluntary deposit
      • Limits of the protection granted to the debtor
      • Public access to voluntary deposit files
      • Threats, harassment and intimidation
    • To benefit from the voluntary deposit procedure
    • Registering for voluntary deposit
      • Content of the declaration
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      • Calculating your gross monthly income
      • Calculating the seizable portion of your income
      • Table of exemptions for calculation of the seizable portion of your income
      • Distribution to your creditors
      • Special rules if support payments are owed
      • Interest rate
    • Amending your declaration
    • Loss of the protection of voluntary deposit and closure of your file
      • Payment of your debts
      • Waiving the benefit of voluntary deposit
      • Bankruptcy
      • Death
    • Rights and obligations of creditors
      • Contesting a declaration
      • Your share of the amounts deposited
      • Information on the debtor’s situation
  • Seizure
    • Unseizable property and income
    • Opposition to seizure
    • Notice of sale
    • Sale price of your property
    • Stay or annulment of a sale
    • Annulment of the sale of seized property
    • Release of seizure
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      • Seizure of your income
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      • Declaration by a garnishee
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      • Distribution to creditors
      • Service of the notice of execution
    • Seizure of movable property
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      • Custody of seized property
      • Distribution of proceeds
      • Opposition to seizure
        • Service of the opposition
      • Payment of the cost of the seizure and cost of the sale
    • Seizure of immovable property
      • Minutes of seizure
      • Custody of seized property
    • Seizure before judgment
  • Bankruptcy
    • Steps in the bankruptcy process
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    • Seizable and unseizable property
    • Request for information concerning a bankrupt
    • Choice of a trustee in bankruptcy
    • Superintendent of Bankruptcy
      • Complaint against a trustee
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  • Power of attorney and protective supervision
    • Power of attorney (mandate)
      • The contract
      • Remuneration of the mandatary
      • Mandator's obligations
      • Mandatary's obligations
      • Termination of the mandate
      • Sample mandates
    • Protective supervision
  • Co-ownership
• Victims
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      • Extrajudicial treatment of offences committed by young people
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