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Originally Posted by edn88
I think that regardless of the circumstances, that in order to be in an AIP situation, you should have to sign a contract. I like that any two people can enter into this though - being married shouldn't matter - if you choose to partner with some one, you should honor your obligations (or have a mutually agreed upon prenup)
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Just as a note, it is possible to sign an AIP agreement (which then allows you to enter into an AIP before 3 years have passed). My partner and I did this several years ago, since we hadn't yet lived together 3 years, so as to get the benefit for things like health care coverage.
Even the agreement itself is pretty ... uh ... haxy, though. It doesn't get registered anywhere (or at least, didn't at the time, it may have changed now). When we did it, basically it just entailed copying the text from the gov't website into a Word doc, print it, sign it and get two friends "of age" to witness, and then shove the paper into a file.
And of course, most places hadn't heard of it (the fact that you could enter into an AIP agreement by signing this statement) anyway and just kept asking "are you sure you haven't lived together 3 years?" because that's the only way they knew how to handle the situation. Fortunately, it's now been more than three years, so that's no longer a problem.