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==Introduction==
==Introduction==


When someone who has signed a family law agreement doesn't do the things the agreement requires, that person is ''in breach'' of the agreement. In family law, unlike in the law about commercial contracts, a party to an agreement can breach just part of the agreement without being considered to be in breach of the whole agreement. As a result, when someone breaches just a part of a family law agreement, the other party isn't allowed to treat the entire agreement as having been rejected by the breaching party, no matter how important the breach was, and the agreement continues to be binding on both parties.
When someone who has signed a family law agreement doesn't do the things the agreement requires, that person is ''in breach'' of the agreement. In family law, unlike the law about commercial contracts, a party to an agreement can breach just part of the agreement without being considered to be in breach of the whole agreement. As a result, when someone breaches just a part of a family law agreement, the other party isn't allowed to treat the entire agreement as having been rejected by the breaching party, no matter how important the breach was, and the agreement continues to be binding on both parties.


The ''[[Family Law Act]]'' says this about family law agreements at s. 6:
The ''[[Family Law Act]]'' says this about family law agreements at s. 6:

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