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*people who have lived together in a marriage-like relationship for at least two years; and
*for some parts of the act, people who have lived together in a marriage-like relationship for less than two years if they have had a child together.
This script is for people who are not spouseslegally married and have not lived together in a marriage-like relationship for more than two years.
==Can you get income assistance while living in an unmarried relationship?==
If you both sign for a loan, however, you are both responsible to repay the debt, even if you’re just a guarantor and you both mean the loan to be your partner’s responsibility. This means that if your partner is unable or refuses to make the payments, you’ll be responsible, even though you may not have had any benefit from the loan. But if you end up paying some or all of a joint loan, you can apply to the court for an order that him or her pay you back.
==If you separate , can you get spousal support from your spouse?==Spousal support is money paid by one spouse to the other after separation to help that spouse meet his or her financial needs. The ''Family Law Act'' allows unmarried people who If you have lived with someone in a marriage-like relationship with your partner for less than two years or more, you may be eligible to apply for receive spousal support, but only if the couple have a child togetherfrom your partner. The amount of spousal support payable only exception to that rule is usually fixed using mathematical formulas set out in the Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines based on your incomes, the length of time if you lived together and other factors. For information on spousal support, refer to script [[Spousal Support (Script 123)|123]] on “Spousal Support”. ==If you separate can you get child support from your spouse?==Child support is money paid by one parent to the other after separation to help that parent meet the financial needs of the children. Child support is payable by anyone who is a parent, whether they are married spouses, unmarried spouses or neither. The partner of have a parent can be required to pay child supporttogether, but only if both are parents of the child or the couple are spouses. Someone who is not the spouse of a parent doesn’t qualify as a stepparent who then you may be responsible for child support. The amount of child support payable is fixed by the Child Support Guidelines according eligible to the payor’s income and the number of children receive spousal support is being paid even though you have lived together in a marriage-like relationship for. For information on child support, refer to script [[Unmarried Spouses: About the Children in Your Family (Script 147)|147]] on “Unmarried Spouses: About the Children in Your Family”less than two years.
==What rights do you have to property acquired during the relationship?==
[updated November 2014August 2017]
'''The above was last reviewed for accuracy by JP BoydThomas E. Wallwork.'''
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