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Originally Posted by photon
Interesting... basically if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and floats like a duck, it should be treated like a duck?
That part makes sense.
The difficulty is in actually measuring the things "sexually involved or not, who share one another's lives, are emotionally committed to each other and function as an economic and domestic unit". That could be pretty fuzzy.
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Adult Interdependent Partner = AIP (pronounced like ape)
While not perfect, the Act itself provides some factors to consider in determining what a relationship of interdependence entails (at least with respect to the "functioning as an economic and domestic unit"):
1(2) In determining whether 2 persons function as an economic and domestic unit for the purposes of subsection (1)(f)(iii), all the circumstances of the relationship must be taken into account, including such of the following matters as may be relevant:
(a) whether or not the persons have a conjugal relationship;
(b) the degree of exclusivity of the relationship;
(c) the conduct and habits of the persons in respect of household activities and living arrangements;
(d) the degree to which the persons hold themselves out to others as an economic and domestic unit;
(e) the degree to which the persons formalize their legal obligations, intentions and responsibilities toward one another;
(f) the extent to which direct and indirect contributions have been made by either person to the other or to their mutual well‑being;
(g) the degree of financial dependence or interdependence and any arrangements for financial support between the persons;
(h) the care and support of children;
(i) the ownership, use and acquisition of property.