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The only thing that needs to be pointed out is that the two-year period doesn't need to be continuous. On the other hand, if a claim is based on the parties being unmarried spouses, the court will probably look at the nature of the relationship in more detail. A gap of three months in the middle of the two years a couple are supposed to have lived together might prevent someone from claiming that a couple are spouses; on the other hand, if the three months' absence was because someone was working out-of-town, the three months may not matter very much.
The only thing that needs to be pointed out is that the two-year period doesn't need to be continuous. On the other hand, if a claim is based on the parties being unmarried spouses, the court will probably look at the nature of the relationship in more detail. A gap of three months in the middle of the two years a couple are supposed to have lived together might prevent someone from claiming that a couple are spouses; on the other hand, if the three months' absence was because someone was working out-of-town, the three months may not matter very much.


===...In a "marriage-like relationship"===
===In a "marriage-like relationship"===


This is more complex than the calculation of the duration of a relationship, partly because it calls for the court to make a decision about the nature of the parties' private, personal relationship with one another. In a 1998 case called ''[http://canlii.ca/t/1dz3n Takacs v. Gallo]'', 1998 CanLII 6428 (BCCA) the Court of Appeal endorsed these considerations:
This is more complex than the calculation of the duration of a relationship, partly because it calls for the court to make a decision about the nature of the parties' private, personal relationship with one another. In a 1998 case called ''[http://canlii.ca/t/1dz3n Takacs v. Gallo]'', 1998 CanLII 6428 (BCCA) the Court of Appeal endorsed these considerations:
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