A judge has ruled there is enough evidence to order a trial for a Quebec woman charged with killing her children and helping her husband commit suicide.

Judge Rosaire Larouche ruled Thursday that all the necessary requirements were met to send Cathie Gauthier to trial.

Gauthier, 35, faces three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her three children — Joelle, 12, Marc-Ange, 7, and Louis-Philippe, 4.

She also faces one count of helping her husband, Marc Laliberte, 46, commit suicide.

Quebec provincial police have alleged the couple made a murder-suicide pact.

A trial date will be set on April 6.

Another judge granted Gauthier bail Monday under strict conditions, including that she remain under constant supervision in a transition house for women.

Gauthier had previously been held at the hospital where she was taken after she and her family were found on Jan. 2 in a bungalow in the Chicoutimi borough of Saguenay, north of Quebec City. She was suffering from knife wounds; the rest of her family was dead.

When Justice Richard Grenier granted bail this week, he said he was primarily motivated by the presumption of innocence and the fact that Gauthier intends to present a defence.