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Difference between revisions of "Basic Principles of Property and Debt in Family Law"

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===Standing===
===Standing===


The people who are entitled to ask to divide property and debt are ''spouses'', but not all spouses just spouses who are married to each other or who have lived together in a marriage-like relationship for at least two years. Section 3 says this:
The people who are entitled to ask to divide property and debt are ''spouses'', but not all spouses, just spouses who are married to each other or who have lived together in a marriage-like relationship for at least two years. Section 3 says this:


<blockquote><tt>(1) A person is a spouse for the purposes of this Act if the person</tt></blockquote>
<blockquote><tt>(1) A person is a spouse for the purposes of this Act if the person</tt></blockquote>