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
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- 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').
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- 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
Cohabitation Rights in England and Wales, Scotland and Australia
Across the globe, the composition of families is changing. No longer is marriage the definitive means for defining a family; we have seen the growth of other formalised relationship statuses such as registered partnerships and civil unions. The family outside marriage has now become a statistical reality and something that policymakers should not readily ignore.
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- Cohabitation
!03/07/2023 08:00
Building a Movement for Cohabitation Reform in England and Wales
Calls to reform the legal regulation of unmarried cohabitants are not new. In August 2022, the Women and Equalities Committee proposed comprehensive reform, including opt-out protections on relationship breakdown, as well as reform of intestacy law. All t…
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- Cohabitation
!03/03/2023 13:05
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