Graeme Fraser

Graeme Fraser

Graeme Fraser is a solicitor and Head of the Family Team at William Sturges LLP and has been supporting, guiding and enabling people to achieve fairer...

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Parliamentary Debate Reveals Government’s Latest Intentions for Financial Remedies and Cohabitation Law Reform

Parliamentary Debate Reveals Government’s Latest Intentions for Financial Remedies and Cohabitation Law Reform

The Government gave a significant update on Monday 10 November 2025 in the House of Lords regarding its plans for financial remedies and cohabitation law reform. It signals a major overhaul of how the law treats relationship breakdown across all types of couples.

How Cohabitation Reform Could Reduce Pressure on Public Finances

How Cohabitation Reform Could Reduce Pressure on Public Finances

Introduction Following the UK general election in 2024, the Government has gone on record various times since to confirm that a public consultation will be issued later this year to strengthen the rights and protections available to women in cohabiting couples. In this article, I set out why legislating for

What Financial Remedy Lawyers Need to Know About Emojis ❓👨👩🤔🧐🌝

What Financial Remedy Lawyers Need to Know About Emojis ❓👨👩🤔🧐🌝

Emojis play a significant part in digital communications, including casual messaging, social media posts, and increasingly, professional communications. When we are reviewing historical messages, understanding what the emojis were intended to mean could become an essential part of identifying what was discussed and/or agreed at that time. What is

Enhancing Public Understanding of Financial Remedies on Divorce

Enhancing Public Understanding of Financial Remedies on Divorce

Introduction Why is it that lawyers think that the principles underpinning financial remedies are clear, and yet the public are often perplexed? The issue is one of communication, or rather translating the law into plain English. Our clients frequently feel disconnected when lawyers discuss the law, and particularly when writing

Cohabitation – The Case For and Against Reform

Cohabitation – The Case For and Against Reform

Opener Harry Benson Divorce law, in principle at least, seems pretty sensible. You keep what you brought into the marriage and share what you gained. At least that’s my limited understanding, courtesy of my colleague former High Court Judge Sir Paul Coleridge. So why shouldn’t the same or

Book Review: Cohabitation and Trusts of Land

Book Review: Cohabitation and Trusts of Land

Elizabeth Darlington and Laura Heaton (Sweet & Maxwell, 4th edn, 2024) In the absence of a specific family law-based remedy, it is a fair comment to say that practising cohabitation law in England and Wales is more complicated in 2024 than it ever has been before. This significant publication is

Graeme Fraser’s A–Z of Cohabitation

Graeme Fraser’s A–Z of Cohabitation

Graeme Fraser needs no introduction in the cohabitation world. Here’s his A-Z of Cohabitation… A is for Agreement A cohabitation agreement is a written, signed document, often signed as a deed in front of witnesses which deals with who owns (and owes) what at the time of the agreement