Relationship Property

Question 1

a De facto Relationship is

Answer 1

A relationship between two people who are 18 years or older, who live together as a couple, who are not married or in a civil union. similar riles about age and consent to marriage but no prescription as to gender.

Question 2

Meaning of a de facto relationship 1 (3)
A de facto relationship is a relationship between 2 people that are:

Answer 2

a) both aged 18 years or older
b) live together as a couple
c) not married and not in a civil union with each other

Question 3

Meaning of a de facto relationship 2 (9)
Determining whether the two people live together as a couple, these circumstances are taken into account

Answer 3

a) The duration of the relationship
b) The nature and extent of common residence
c) sexual or non sexual
d) Financial dependence or interdependence
e) ownership, acquisition and use of property
f) degree of mutual commitment to a shared life
g) care and support of children
h) performance of household duties
i) what the public thinks of the relationship

Question 4

Meaning of a de facto relationship 3 (2)
in determining whether 2 persons live together as a couple-

Answer 4

a) have to have a no items in subsection 2 for it not to be a de facto.
b)

Question 5

Meaning of a de facto relationship
for the purposes of the act the relationship ends if…

Answer 5

a) The de facto partners cease to live together as a couple; or
b) one of the partners dies