Following on from last week’s post, I thought it would be useful to also summarise the definition of 'de facto'.
This particular definition is taken from the Family Law Act (Section 4AA).
In summary, a person will be in a de facto relationship with another person, if:
(a) the persons are not legally married to each other; and
(b) the persons are not related by family (see subsection (6)); and
(c) having regard to all the circumstances of their relationship, they have a
relationship as a couple living together on a genuine domestic basis.
A link to the above definition is - http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/fla1975114/s4aa.html
Until next week.
