Western Australian Current Acts

FAMILY COURT ACT 1997 - SECT 205ZP

205ZP .         Financial agreements after de facto relationship ends — FLA s. 90D

        (1)         If —

            (a)         after a de facto relationship is ended, the parties to the former de facto relationship make a written agreement with respect to any of the matters mentioned in subsection (2); and

            (b)         at the time of the making of the agreement, no other agreement (whether made under this section or section 205ZN or 205ZO) is in force between the parties with respect to any of those matters; and

            (c)         the agreement is expressed to be made under this section,

                the agreement is a financial agreement.

        (2)         The matters referred to in subsection (1)(a) are the following —

            (a)         how all or any of the property or financial resources that either or both of them had or acquired during the former de facto relationship is to be dealt with;

            (b)         the maintenance of either of them.

        (3)         A financial agreement made as mentioned in subsection (1) may contain matters incidental or ancillary to those mentioned in subsection (2).

        (4)         A financial agreement made as mentioned in subsection (1) may terminate a previous financial agreement made as mentioned in that subsection, a financial agreement made as mentioned in section 205ZN(1) or 205ZO(1), or a former financial agreement, between the same parties.

        [Section 205ZP inserted: No. 25 of 2002 s. 47.]