Living under the same roof
You can be considered to be separated from your spouse even if you live under the same roof.
Someone outside the relationship may be required to give evidence to confirm what you say about the separation circumstances. Factors to prove that you are separated might include things like the absence of sexual intercourse, you and your spouse each doing your own chores (eg. cooking and cleaning), and/or financial independence.
14/07/2010 | KEEP THEM SAFE - NEW CHILD PROTECTION LEGISLATION There is little question that NSW’s child protection system has had some fairly major flaws. Over the last few years we have been inundated with media reports about child abuse and neglect, and cases that have ‘fallen through the cracks’...
9/07/2010 | REGIONAL LAW SOCIETY PRESENTATION David Fryatt - solicitor from Stacks/The Law Firm, Taree - will be a presenter at the Regional Law Society's "Succession - Contested Wills" event in Newcastle on Friday 6 August...
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