Same-sex couples face unique financial issues

Full story: Canada.com

"You could be a 40-year common-law couple and [if ] one of you dies, the other gets nothing," Catherine Watson Things have changed in the world of financial planning in Canada since 1999, when it joined a handful of countries that recognized same-sex unions and, later, marriages.

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