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===Time limits===
===Time limits===


An unmarried spouse who has a child can face a claim for child support until the child reaches the age of 19, and possibly longer. Child support is mostly about being a parent not being a spouse.
An unmarried spouse who has a child can face a claim for child support until the child reaches the age of 19, and possibly longer. Child support is mostly about being a parent, not being a spouse.


However, there are three important things you need to know about claims for spousal support and claims for child support against stepparents:
However, there are three important things you need to know about claims for spousal support and claims for child support against stepparents:
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*arbitrators who meet the training requirements set out in the Family Law Act Regulation.
*arbitrators who meet the training requirements set out in the Family Law Act Regulation.


In other words, being engaged in a family dispute resolution process with someone like a community leader, an elder, a senior family member, a priest, an imam or a rabbi won't cut it unless the person also happens to fit into the definition of family dispute resolution professional.
In other words, being engaged in a family dispute resolution process with someone like a community leader, an elder, a senior family member, a priest, an imam, or a rabbi won't cut it unless the person also happens to fit into the definition of family dispute resolution professional.


Third, the parties must be ''engaged'' in the family dispute resolution process. That implies a process that is continuing and underway, rather than one that was started but never followed-through with.
Third, the parties must be ''engaged'' in the family dispute resolution process. That implies a process that is continuing and underway, rather than one that was started but never followed-through with.