Im sharing a house with my ex. We have lived together for 25 years. The romance has petered out rather than broken. We have separate bedrooms but some shared expenses, like flatmates. We now want to separate finances. She has a recent trust-protected inheritance, moved me into the house she was able to buy, then had doubts. I am not being kicked out of her house - yet .
So, while we remain under the same roof I want to claim centrelink benefits when not employed, and in a couple of years the pension. She, for various reasons, is not cooperating with the partner paperwork so it's time to tell centrelink and the ATO we are separate.
If we tell centrelink and ATO we are no longer a couple, my question is if we later want to live apart and separate property, when does the statutory period (2 years I think) for legal settlement start? From when we told ATO/centrelink or when we actually start to live apart? Or something else?
It hopefully wont come to that but an agreement would be guided by whats legally enforceable. I dont see a practical need to separate property until we are living apart.
So, while we remain under the same roof I want to claim centrelink benefits when not employed, and in a couple of years the pension. She, for various reasons, is not cooperating with the partner paperwork so it's time to tell centrelink and the ATO we are separate.
If we tell centrelink and ATO we are no longer a couple, my question is if we later want to live apart and separate property, when does the statutory period (2 years I think) for legal settlement start? From when we told ATO/centrelink or when we actually start to live apart? Or something else?
It hopefully wont come to that but an agreement would be guided by whats legally enforceable. I dont see a practical need to separate property until we are living apart.
