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.
In the Roman Republic, a law was passed imposing a limit of a single term on the office of censor. The annual magistrates-tribune of the plebs, aedile, quaestor, praetor, and consul âwere forbidden reelection until a number of years had passed. (see cursus honorum, Constitution of the Roman Republic).