Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

FAMILY LAW ACT 1975 - SECT 90UC

  (1)   If:

  (a)   while in a   de   facto   relationship, the parties to the   de   facto   relationship make a written agreement about any of the matters mentioned in subsection   (2) in the event of the breakdown of the   de   facto   relationship; and

  (b)   at the time of the making of the agreement, the parties to the   de   facto   relationship are not the spouse parties to any other Part   VIIIAB financial agreement that is binding on them with respect to any of those matters; and

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

the agreement is a Part   VIIIAB financial agreement . The parties to the   de   facto   relationship may make the Part   VIIIAB financial agreement with one or more other people.

  (2)   The matters referred to in paragraph   (1)(a) are the following:

  (a)   how all or any of the:

  (i)   property; or

  (ii)   financial resources;

    of either or both of the spouse parties at the time when the agreement is made, or at a later time and during the   de   facto   relationship, is to be distributed;

  (b)   the maintenance of either of the spouse parties.

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

  (4)   A Part   VIIIAB financial agreement (the new agreement ) made as mentioned in subsection   (1) may terminate a previous Part   VIIIAB financial agreement (however made) if all of the parties to the previous agreement are parties to the new agreement.