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FAMILY COURT ACT 1997 - SECT 205T

205T .         Terms used

                In this Part —

        child , of a de facto relationship, includes —

            (a)         a biological child of both of the de facto partners born before the commencement of the de facto relationship; or

            (b)         a child adopted since the commencement of the de facto relationship by the de facto partners or by either of them with the consent of the other; or

            (ca)         a child whose parentage has, since the commencement of the de facto relationship, been transferred under the Surrogacy Act 2008 to the de facto partners; or

            (c)         a child of a de facto partner whose de facto partner is presumed or proved to be the other parent of the child under a Commonwealth, State or Territory law,

        and includes a child of a de facto relationship that has ended;

        (FLA s. 4(1))

        financial agreement means a financial agreement within the meaning of section 205ZN, 205ZO or 205ZP;

        (FLA s. 4(1))

        financial matters , in relation to de facto partners, means matters with respect to —

            (a)         the maintenance of one of the de facto partners; or

            (b)         the property of those partners or either of them; or

            (c)         the maintenance of children of the de facto partners;

        former financial agreement means an agreement made before the commencement of this Part between de facto partners with respect to any of the matters mentioned in sections 205ZN(2)(a) or (b), 205ZO(2)(a) or (b) or 205ZP(2)(a) or (b), or matters incidental or ancillary to those matters;

        (FLA s. 4(1))

        income tested pension, allowance or benefit means a pension, allowance or benefit prescribed, or included in a class of pensions, allowances or benefits prescribed, for the purposes of this definition.

        [Section 205T inserted: No. 25 of 2002 s. 47; amended: No. 47 of 2008 s. 62; No. 28 of 2022 s. 8.]



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