If you've decided to leave your spouse, you should take certain important documents and belongings when you go:
- Your financial information. For example:
- your tax returns for at least the past three years
- bank account, credit card, investment, and debt statements
- copies of recent pay stubs
- Your BC Services Card or CareCard (if it's not part of your driver's licence)
- Your marriage certificate (if you're married)
- Your passport and any immigration papers
- Your Secure Certificate of Indian Status (secure status card) or Certificate of Indian Status (status card) (if you're a member of a First Nation)
- Your medications and prescriptions
- Your clothing and personal belongings
- If you have children and you're taking them with you, their:
- birth certificates
- BC Services Cards or CareCards
- passports
- Secure Certificate of Indian Status (secure status card) or Certificate of Indian Status (status card) (if they're members of a First Nation)
- medications and prescriptions
- clothing and personal belongings
Try to bring:
- Photocopies of information about any income and assets that are in your spouse's name only. For example, your spouse's:
- pay stubs
- tax returns
- company records and ledgers
- bank accounts
- investments, TFSAs, and RRSPs
- Details about your spouse's
- Social Insurance Number
- BC Services Card or CareCard number
- date of birth
These details about your spouse might help later if:
- you disagree about money and property, or
- you lose contact with your spouse and need to find them.
In your situation involves abuse or family violence, see:
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Updated on 13 September 2019