Queensland Numbered Acts

DOMESTIC AND FAMILY VIOLENCE PROTECTION ACT 2012 No. 5 - SECT 15

(1) A spousal relationship exists between spouses.

Note—

A reference to a spouse includes a de facto partner. For definitions of spouse and de facto partner, see the Acts Interpretation Act 1954, sections 36 and 32DA.

(2) A spouse, of a person, includes—

(a) a former spouse of the person; and

(b) a parent, or former parent, of a child of the person.

Example of a former parent of a child—

a birth parent who stops being a parent of a child under the Surrogacy Act 2010, section 39(2)(b)

(3) For subsection (2)(b), it is irrelevant whether there is or was any relationship between the parents of the child.