Help! i need some answers about common-law

[Line.a]

I've been visiting my boyfriend for 2,5 months,
but i'm back home now.. already planning a trip out to stay with him.

is common-law where you live together on the same address with NO breaks in between?

i got confused with it since i read this:

"you are in a common-law relationship if you and your sponsor have lived together in a conjugal relationship for a peiod of at least one year".

we have proof of pictures, tickets for me coming out to him and opposite, mail being sent to his address when i stayed at his..

hope this doesn't sound too cunfusing!

 

[RobsLuv]

Read through the OP2Processing Manual - Section 5.34-5.36 - for information on what constitutes a common-law relationship and how you prove it. Visits totalling a year won't cut it - that is not cohabitation.

 

[Line.a]

so what you're saying is that if i go visit him for months, go home, come out again until it adds up to one year isn't working?

 

[ariannecat]

line.a i think before to be considered common law, u need to be at least lived together for at least 1 yr--no interuptions, although u or ur partner can leave but for short period only.(im not sure about there definition of short period, but i think its like 1 or 2 weeks).

 

[valy79]

so what you're saying is that if i go visit him for months, go home, come out again until it adds up to one year isn't working?

No, that's not working at all, like RobsLuv said. You need joint leases, joint household etc. No way you'll get through with this in my opinion.

 

[Line.a]

gotcha. thanks for clearing that up for me!