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- How is a common law relationship defined in Alberta laws?
- What is the significance of the new law?
- What is an adult interdependent relationship?
- How would anyone determine whether a couple is functioning as an economic and domestic unit?
- Can same sex partners be adult interdependent partners under the Adult Interdependent Relationships Act?
- What is an adult interdependent partner agreement?
- Can anyone make an adult interdependent partner agreement?
- 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?
- I have lived with my sister for many years. Are people who are related to each other able to come within the definition of adult interdependent partners?
- I am 17 and I live with my boyfriend who is 19. We do not want to get married but we want to be recognized as a unit. Can we be treated as being an adult interdependent relationship?
- My friend told me that if we made an adult interdependent partner agreement we could get an apartment in a building where they only allow couples to rent. I made the agreement, but I found out that my friend made up the story about the building. Am I stuck with this agreement now?
- When my friend induced me to enter into an adult interdependent partner agreement because he told me we could rent an apartment together in a particular building that only allowed couples, I gave him money for a deposit. Now he won’t give me the money back. Can I take legal action against him?
- My son had a close relationship with a friend. Six months ago my son went to work abroad. His friend came to see me recently and showed me an adult interdependent partner agreement that he said my son and he had signed. He asked me for money to help him set up a business. I gave him some money, but I wasn’t sure and so I checked with my son. My son told me there never was an agreement and that the relationship ended before my son left. How can I get my money back?
- Are there other circumstances when an adult interdependent partner agreement will not be valid?
- 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?
- I was living with a partner in an adult interdependent relationship for five years. I wanted to end the relationship, but my partner did not. We split up for three months and then I agreed to try to live together again. We tried living together for eight weeks but have now split up again. Do I now have to wait for a year from the eight weeks for the partnership to be formally considered as ended?
- I have lived with a partner for eight years, but I want to end the relationship. I cannot yet afford to move out of the house we own together, but we live separately in the house. My partner does not want the relationship to end and is being difficult about dealing with dividing up the house or selling it. There is no possibility of signing a written agreement to end the relationship. In these circumstances, how can I fulfill the requirement that we live separate and apart for one year in order for the adult interdependent partnership to be over?
- I have been in a relationship and living with someone since 1994. As the Adult Interdependent Relationships Act did not become effective until June 2003, does this mean that I cannot claim to have been in adult interdependent relationship until June 2003?
- My elderly father has had a close companion for the last ten years. She started out as a housekeeper and although he still pays her for services she has also become a close friend. They do not live together. Just lately I heard from someone else that she has been saying that she is my father’s adult interdependent partner and will be able to claim from his estate when he passes away. Is this right?
- I have two close personal relationships that I would like to formalise under the Adult Interdependent Relationships Act. Can I do this?
- Are there still common law rights now that there is an Adult Interdependent Relationships Act?
- Which laws have been changed to take into account the Adult Interdependent Relationships Act and are these changes significant?
- My mother lived with her friend Jean for fifteen years before she died last year. It was a platonic relationship based on friendship and the convenience of sharing a home with someone else. My mother did not leave a will so that everything she left, including the house, was dealt with under the rules relating to intestacy. My siblings and I were amazed when we heard that Jean was entitled to get a grant of administration from the court for my mother's estate on the basis that she and my mother were adult interdependent partners. Is that right?
- We were further amazed when we learned that Jean was entitled to a large sum from my mother's property under the intestacy rules. Is this right?
- Is there any way in which my mother could have still lived with Jean but prevented her from receiving property after her death?
- My mother passed away twelve years ago and my father has been living with someone else for ten years. I know my father made a will right after my mother passed away. My father's second partner is younger than him and has children from a former relationship. My siblings and I are concerned that the will my father made will no longer be valid. Is this right?
- Has the Dower Act been changed by the Adult Interdependent Relationships Act?
- If I enter into an adult interdependent relationship can I insure the life of my partner?
- I made an Enduring Power of Attorney some years ago that was witnessed by my friend Tom. Since that time Tom and I have become adult interdependent partners. A friend of mine mentioned that my Power of Attorney may not be valid. Is that right?
- Mike, my adult interdependent partner, is severely handicapped. I heard that the provisions for AISH (Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped) have been changed to allow for benefits to an adult interdependent partner. Is this right?
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