What is an adult interdependent relationship?

The Adult Interdependent Relationships Act provides two possible ways for such a relationship to exist

1. If you have made a formal and valid adult interdependent partner agreement with the other person.

Two people that are related by either blood or adoption must enter into such as agreement in order to be considered adult interdependent partners.

OR

2. If you are not related by either blood or adoption and if you have:

a) lived with the other person in a "relationship of interdependence" for at least 3 continuous years; or

b) lived with the other person in a "relationship of interdependence" of some permanence where there is a child of the relationship (either by birth or adoption).

The Adult Interdependent Relationships Act defines a "relationship of interdependence" as a relationship outside of marriage where two people:

a) share one another's lives;

b) are emotionally committed to one another; and

c) functions as an economic and domestic unit.

To meet these criteria, the relationship does not have to be conjugal (sexual). It can be platonic.

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