No, because there’s no such thing as filing for legal separation in Ontario. You are deemed legally separated when you and your spouse start living separate lives. And you don’t need to be living in separate properties to be classed as separated. You’ll still hear the term ‘legal separation’ used a lot, but this is normally to describe the contract that’s created between two spouses who are planning to split up.

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