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Family Proceedings Act 1980

Maintenance of spouses and de facto partners

62: Domestic benefit irrelevant

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"Support duties remain even if someone gets a domestic benefit"

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You have a responsibility to support someone under the Family Proceedings Act 1980. This responsibility does not stop just because the person's needs are being met by a domestic benefit. The domestic benefit does not affect your liability to maintain that person.

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Part 6Maintenance of spouses and de facto partners

62Domestic benefit irrelevant

  1. Without limiting or affecting the law relating to any other benefit, the liability to maintain any person under this Act is not extinguished by reason of the fact that the person's reasonable needs are being met by a domestic benefit.