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<blockquote><blockquote><tt>(a) during the period beginning when the relationship between the spouses begins and ending when the spouses separate</tt></blockquote></blockquote> | <blockquote><blockquote><tt>(a) during the period beginning when the relationship between the spouses begins and ending when the spouses separate</tt></blockquote></blockquote> | ||
As you can see, the dates when "the relationship between the spouses began" and the date "the spouses separate" are very important. | As you can see, the dates when "the relationship between the spouses began" and the date "the spouses separate" are very important. They are the dates that mark the end of acquiring excluded property and personal debt, the start of acquiring shareable family property and family debt, and the end of acquiring family property and family debt. | ||
====Date of Cohabation or and the Date of Marriage==== | |||
Section 3 says when a relationship between spouses begins: | |||
<blockquote><tt>(3) A relationship between spouses begins on the earlier of the following:</tt></blockquote> | |||
<blockquote><blockquote><tt>(a) the date on which they began to live together in a marriage-like relationship;</tt></blockquote></blockquote> | |||
<blockquote><blockquote><tt>(b) the date of their marriage.</tt></blockquote></blockquote> | |||
For married spouses, their relationship starts on the earlier of the date they began to live together in a marriage-like relationship or got married. For unmarried spouses, once the parties have lived together for two years, their relationship as spouses is considered to have started on the date they began to live together. | |||
The date of a couple's marriage is pretty obvious. It isn't always so obvious when a couple "begins" to live together in a marriage-like relationship. | |||
====Date of Separation==== | ====Date of Separation==== | ||
