[2025] NZSSAA 12 (11 April 2025) [pdf, 240 KB]
...role) he will support the other partner and any child or children of the relationship if she has no income of her own or to the extent that it is or becomes inadequate. The commitment must go beyond mere sharing of living expenses, as platonic flatmates or siblings living together may do; it must amount to a willingness to support, if the need exists. … It will not, however, be negated by a refusal to support, or an arrangement that support will not be given, which is motivate...