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Article: Aboriginal policy reform and the subsidiarity principle: a case study of the division of matrimonial real property on Canadian Indian reserves.(RESEARCH NOTE/NOTE DE RECHERCHE)(Case study)
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- June 1, 2008
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Abstract: According to the Indian Act, aboriginal women in Canada do not have the same equality rights as aboriginal men living on-reserve and non-aboriginal women living off-reserve. The Indian Act's provisions governing the division of matrimonial real property on Canadian Indian reserves have dispossessed many aboriginal women of their property entitlements during and after separation and divorce proceedings. Despite the existence of this problem for the last fifty-five years, the Indian Act has proven highly resistant to reform. A number of First Nations, however, have recently been able to address this issue by developing local matrimonial property laws through the ...
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