I am in a relationship with another adult and we have not made an adult interdependent partner agreement. Does this mean that we are not adult interdependent parties?

Not necessarily. Making an agreement is one way in which it will be determined that a valid adult interdependent situation exists. It is also possible that even without an agreement your conduct will show that you are sharing each other’s lives, are emotionally committed to each other, and function as an economic and domestic unit. You must also have lived with the other person in a relation of interdependence for at least three years continuously, or lived with that person in a relation of interdependence which is of some permanence and there is a child by birth or adoption.

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