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→The Family Law Act
Because the ''[[Family Law Act]]'' doesn't talk about divorce, it also doesn't talk about separation and attempts to reconcile. The one exception has to do with the division of property and debt under Part 5 of the act. Section 83 says this:
<blockquote><tt>(1) For the purposes of this Part, spouses are not considered to have separated if, within one year after separation, </tt></blockquote>
<blockquote><blockquote><tt>(a) they begin to live together again and the primary purpose for doing so is to reconcile, and</tt></blockquote></blockquote>
<blockquote><blockquote><tt>(b) they continue to live together for one or more periods, totalling at least 90 days. </tt></blockquote></blockquote>
<blockquote><tt>(2) Nothing in this Part affects a division of property under an agreement or order in a circumstance where, after the agreement or order was made, spouses live together and then separate again.</tt></blockquote>
These provisions are important because the date of separation is the date when new property and new debt stop being shared family property and family debt and start being each spouse's separate property and debt.