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(There are no time limits for claims about parenting children and the payment of child support in section 198. However, for claims about parenting, the child must be under the age of 19, and for claims about child support, the child must still be qualified to benefit from the payment support. See the [[Child Support]] chapter for more information.)
The date of separation is the date when one or both spouses realize that their relationship is over, says so, and ends the "marriage-like" quality of the relationship. As a result, the "marriage-like" quality of a relationship can terminate before a couple physically separates, and the time limits will usually begin to run from that date rather than the date someone moves out.
However, the two-year time limit is ''suspended'' — it stops running — while you are working with a qualified "family dispute resolution professional" in one of the "family dispute resolution" processes the ''Family Law Act'' names. Under section 1 of the act, "family dispute resolution professional" includes:
Second, the "family dispute resolution professional" you're working with needs to be a ''qualified'' family dispute resolution professional. If your family dispute resolution professional doesn't meet the requirements, the time limit won't be suspended. Those requirements are set out in sections 4, 5 and 6 of the [http://canlii.ca/t/8rdx Family Law Act Regulation]. It is really important that you ask the family dispute resolution professional you are working with whether they meet the requirements of the Family Law Act Regulation! However, if your family dispute resolution professional is a lawyer, you can easily check their status through the Law Society of British Columbia's [https://www.lawsociety.bc.ca/lsbc/apps/lkup/mbr-search.cfm lawyer directory]. The directory
===Effect of dispute resolution processes===