The bottom line is, you want a legal separation agreement that will protect you during a separation in case your spouse fails to live up to his/her obligations as outlined in the agreement. You want an agreement that will hold up in court should you have to go to court to have it enforced.
tribÂ·une 1. n. 1. An officer of ancient Rome elected by the plebeians to protect their rights from arbitrary acts of the patrician magistrates.
1) Commander-in-chief of the Roman armies if there's a war going on. 2) Chief law-maker and new-law-implementer. Laws were made by the consuls and the tribunes of the plebs. The senate also passed what's called the senatorial decrees and these were often treated like laws (they weren't). 3) Head of all other magistrates and could veto everyone's decisions, with the exception of tribunes of the plebs and censors.