BU413 Chapter 5: Chapter 5.docx
Document Summary
Separation agreement a contract between spouses in which they agree to live separate lives and set various conditions. A spousal couple means any two persons, same sex or opposite, who are living together in a conjugal relationship, regardless of whether they are married. The first step in ending a relationship is for the couple to stop living together. There are three grounds for divorce as follows: 1) intentional separation for one year because of marital difficulties. 3) husband or wife subjects the other to intolerable physical or mental cruelty. Every parent has an obligation to provide support for unmarried dependent children who are under the age of 18 or who are in full-time attendance at an educational institution, according to need. Spousal support in the event of a marriage breakdown, each spouse has an obligation to assist the other spouse financially, to the extent that support is needed and can be afforded.
