Official Common Law Union Date

[yankanuck]

Hi Everyone,

I am confused about the date to put as when we "officially entered our common law union". The guide states that "This is the date your status officially changed from being single to common-law, not the date you started living together."

We filed our 2010 taxes together as common law. Is the official date the date that our taxes said "common law"? So when I received our notice of assessment?

On December 25th 2009 we started living together (but not on our own, with parents back and forth between here and Florida). So is December 25th 2010 the "official" day? Or is it a year after we started living together on our own so September 2011?

So confused!!! Please help.

Thanks,

Kim

[Canooknic]

I believe to qualify as common-law they say you need to have lived together for 12 months, so I would put it as Sept 2011.
I wish I had kept copies of all my forms when we moved so I could help more!!

[yankanuck]

Thank you. I am just worried since we filed our 2010 taxes as common law.

[Canooknic]

Sorry, I read your original dates wrong!  You just have to be living together for 12 months, it doesn't matter where, so as long as you were living together from 2009 then 2010 would be correct.
Sorry..not enough caffine yet 

[tink23]

If u started living together on December 25,2009, then your official date of common law would be 12 months after that, on December 25, 2010, I think, as ur considered common law after living together for 12 months.

[jamaicanincanada]

When I did the paperwork for the Common Law application, I put the date that we started living together as the start date of  our common law union. So we started living together on December 16 2009 and that is the date that I put.

[sidkrose]

^Yes, we did the same, the date we officially moved in together. Although, we filled out the old version of the forms, I suppose it could be different now.