Cohabitation
How Cohabitation Reform Could Reduce Pressure on Public Finances
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, Graeme Fraser sets out why legislating for and implementing reform should be a no brainer in terms of the money it could save for the UK economy.
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- Cohabitation
!30/05/2025 08:00
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SV v AV [2024] EWFC 86 (B)7 February 2024
DJ Ashworth. Final financial remedy hearing involving the weight to be attached to a pre-nuptial agreement, non-matrimonial and matrimonial property, and the computation of assets.
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- Pre-Nuptial Agreements
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Cohabitation
Balancing the Books: Equitable Accounting in Trusts of Land Disputes
This article aims to provide the busy family practitioner with a fairly comprehensive guide to the what, where, when, and how of equitable accounting, specifically in the context of trusts of land, to assist you in getting such claims off on the right footing.
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- TLATA Applications
- Cohabitation
- Equitable Accounting
!22/11/2024 06:00
Cohabitation and Separation: When Does the Clock Start and Stop?
Since the two seminal decisions of the House of Lords in White v White [2000] 2 FLR 981 and Miller v Miller; McFarlane v McFarlane [2006] 1 FLR 1186, the question of when parties commenced cohabitation has assumed an important significance, alongside the question of when they separated.
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- Cohabitation
!22/08/2024 08:00
Cohabitation Reform Under the New Labour Government: Moving From a ‘Whether’ to a ‘What’?
The law around cohabitation has been ripe for reform for many years. As far back as 2007, the Law Commission of England and Wales recommended that it be updated, so as to safeguard couples against uncertainty and injustice in the event of relationship breakdown.
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- Cohabitation
!20/08/2024 08:00
Cohabitation – The Case For and Against Reform
Divorce law, in principle at least, seems pretty sensible. You keep what you brought into the marriage and share what you gained. So why shouldn’t the same or similar rights and responsibilities apply to cohabiting couples who have shared a life together?
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- Cohabitation
!13/03/2024 07:00
Book Review: Cohabitation and Trusts of Land
Graeme Fraser reviews the fourth edition of Cohabitation and Trusts of Land, by Elizabeth Darlington and Laura Heaton.
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- Cohabitation
- Book Review
!13/03/2024 07:00
Cohabitation and Labour's Commitment to Changing the Law: What Reform Might Look Like
This post reflects on what reform of the law on cohabitation might look like. Drawing upon insights from comparative family law, it explores and contrasts two different models of cohabitation reform and will highlight how they have been received in practice.
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- Cohabitation
!23/11/2023 07:00
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KG v NB [2023] EWFC 16028 September 2023
Willans HHJ. Application by H to vary periodical payment term found in a consent order dated 26 March 2019 ('the 2019 order').
- Cases
- Cohabitation
- Periodical Payments
- Variation Applications
- Consent Orders
Graeme Fraser’s A–Z of Cohabitation
Graeme Fraser needs no introduction in the cohabitation world. This is his A–Z of Cohabitation.
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- Cohabitation
!27/10/2023 10:15
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