Alberta drafted broad legislation that includes any two people, sexually involved or not, who share one another's lives, are emotionally committed to each other and function as an economic and domestic unit.
You're automatically considered an
interdependent partner if you've lived in such a relationship for
three years or have lived in a relationship of "some permanence" where there's a child by birth or adoption.
The danger is some Albertans may not even know that they've legally become interdependent partners, Leckey warns in his paper.
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