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S-32.001 - Act respecting income support, employment assistance and social solidarity

Section 19
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19. The word “spouses” means
(1)  persons who are married or in a civil union with each other and who cohabit;
(2)  persons of opposite sex or the same sex who cohabit and who are the mother and father of a child, unless they establish that their cohabiting is temporary and results from exceptional circumstances related to a serious health problem of either person or of any of their children;
(3)  persons of full age of the opposite or the same sex who live together in a de facto union and who, at any one time, cohabited for a period of not less than one year.
Such persons remain spouses or, for the purposes of subparagraph 3 of the first paragraph, are presumed to have continued to cohabit despite the temporary absence of one of them.
1998, c. 36, s. 19; 1999, c. 14, a. 34; 2002, c. 6, s. 208; 2002, c. 51, s. 4.
19. The word “spouses” means
(1)  persons who are married or in a civil union with each other and who cohabit;
(2)  persons of opposite sex or the same sex who cohabit and who are the mother and father of a child;
(3)  persons of full age of the opposite or the same sex who live together in a de facto union and who, at any one time, cohabited for a period of not less than one year.
Such persons remain spouses or, for the purposes of subparagraph 3 of the first paragraph, are presumed to have continued to cohabit despite the temporary absence of one of them.
1998, c. 36, s. 19; 1999, c. 14, a. 34; 2002, c. 6, s. 208.
19. The word “spouses” means
(1)  persons who are married to each other and who cohabit;
(2)  persons who cohabit and who are the mother and father of a child;
(3)  persons of full age of the opposite or the same sex who live together in a de facto union and who, at any one time, cohabited for a period of not less than one year.
Such persons remain spouses or, for the purposes of subparagraph 3 of the first paragraph, are presumed to have continued to cohabit despite the temporary absence of one of them.
1998, c. 36, s. 19; 1999, c. 14, a. 34.
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