I made an adult interdependent partner agreement with someone, but now we are no longer together. I do not want to be a party to the agreement anymore. Do I have to do anything formal to signify that the agreement is over?

It is possible for you to formally indicate in another written agreement with your former partner that the interdependent relationship is over, that you intend to live separate and apart and that there is no possibility of reconciliation. Making such an agreement, would be the clearest way to signify the end of the relationship.

Other ways in which an interdependent relationship will be treated as ended will be as follows:

• You live separate and apart for one year, and one or both of you intends that the adult interdependent relationship is over;
• You marry each other, or one of you marries a third person;
• Where an adult interdependent partner has lived with their partner for three years or, has lived with the partner for a time of some permanence and they have a child by birth or adoption, the relationship will be seen as ended if one partner makes an adult interdependent partner agreement with a third person.
• One or both of you obtain a declaration of irreconcilability under the Family Law Act

Even if you did not make an adult interdependent partner agreement for the time when you were together, you can still make a written agreement to signify that the adult interdependent relationship is over.

Once the adult interdependent relationship is ended in any of the above ways, you become former adult interdependent partners.

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