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The ''Family Law Act'' defines a "spouse" for the purposes of claims about property and debt as someone who has lived in a marriage-like relationship with someone else for at least two years. Only spouses may ask for orders about the division of property and debt. | The ''Family Law Act'' defines a "spouse" for the purposes of claims about property and debt as someone who has lived in a marriage-like relationship with someone else for at least two years. Only spouses may ask for orders about the division of property and debt. | ||
==Agreements available to unmarried couples== | |||
An unmarried couple can make an agreement about whatever they want. | |||
A family law agreement is a contract between two or more people which is enforceable by the courts, and people can make any kind of contract they want, as long as the contract isn't made for an illegal purpose and doesn't require a person to do something illegal. There's no reason, for example, while a couple couldn't make a contract requiring one of them to wear purple shirts on Thursdays in exchange for a box of ants. Although it's hard to imagine why the parties to a contract like that would think it was a good idea, it's still possible. Likewise, there's no reason why an unmarried couple couldn't make an agreement about the payment of spousal support and the division of family property and family debt, in addition to the sort of agreement I'd expect about child support and parenting arrangements or contact. | |||
===Government benefits=== | ===Government benefits=== | ||
