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Changing Family Law Agreements

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Cancelling agreements about property under the Family Relations Act
===Cancelling agreements about property under the ''Family Relations Act''===
Agreements between ''married spouses'' about property that were made before March 18, 2013, the date when the ''[[Family Law Act]]'' came into force, have to be changed under the ''[http://canlii.ca/t/840n Family Relations Act]''. The ''Family Relations Act'' was the law in British Columbia before the ''Family Law Act''. Section 252(2)(a) of the ''Family Law Act'' says that court proceedings to enforce, set aside, or replace an agreement about property division that was signed before the ''Family Law Act'' came into force must be started under the ''Family Relations Act''.
If the ''Family Relations Act'' applies to an agreement about property, section 65 of that act says that an agreement that is in writing and witnessed by a third party can be set aside if it would be unfair considering six factors:
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