Cohabitation Rights - Common Law Marriage
31 May 2006, 08:39 AM
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Cohabitation Rights - Common Law Marriage
So what do people think about these new rights for cohabitees the government have asked the Law Commission to look into?
I'm very much of the opinion that if people don't get married then there should be no preferential treatment, if one of the couple dies then the will can deal with any eventuality.
As pre-nuptual agreements aren't worth the paper they're written on what is there to protect the better off party from some gold digger who is willing to put up with someone for a couple of years just to get a large slice of cash cos the have 'become accustomed to a better standard of living'? If they can become accustomed to a better standard of living I'm sure the can become unaccustomed to it too
I'm very much of the opinion that if people don't get married then there should be no preferential treatment, if one of the couple dies then the will can deal with any eventuality.
As pre-nuptual agreements aren't worth the paper they're written on what is there to protect the better off party from some gold digger who is willing to put up with someone for a couple of years just to get a large slice of cash cos the have 'become accustomed to a better standard of living'? If they can become accustomed to a better standard of living I'm sure the can become unaccustomed to it too
31 May 2006, 08:52 AM
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Originally Posted by Frosty The Snowman
So what do people think about these new rights for cohabitees the government have asked the Law Commission to look into?
I'm very much of the opinion that if people don't get married then there should be no preferential treatment, if one of the couple dies then the will can deal with any eventuality.
As pre-nuptual agreements aren't worth the paper they're written on what is there to protect the better off party from some gold digger who is willing to put up with someone for a couple of years just to get a large slice of cash cos the have 'become accustomed to a better standard of living'? If they can become accustomed to a better standard of living I'm sure the can become unaccustomed to it too
I'm very much of the opinion that if people don't get married then there should be no preferential treatment, if one of the couple dies then the will can deal with any eventuality.
As pre-nuptual agreements aren't worth the paper they're written on what is there to protect the better off party from some gold digger who is willing to put up with someone for a couple of years just to get a large slice of cash cos the have 'become accustomed to a better standard of living'? If they can become accustomed to a better standard of living I'm sure the can become unaccustomed to it too
I just wonder if this is some backhanded way for the government to increase marriage rates
31 May 2006, 08:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Frosty The Snowman
As pre-nuptual agreements aren't worth the paper they're written on what is there to protect the better off party from some gold digger who is willing to put up with someone for a couple of years just to get a large slice of cash cos the have 'become accustomed to a better standard of living'? If they can become accustomed to a better standard of living I'm sure the can become unaccustomed to it too
Now I havent a clue as to who is entitled to what in the normal marriage stakes. If a spouse dies, and has a pension, I presume the surviving spouse can have part of that pension.....and what they are saying is, in a "common-law" (or whatever the correct teminology is) that the surviving half gets nothing. Now i think that is wrong if they have been living together as all intents and purposes married for x number of years. ie paid the mortgage together etc, that the survivor should get part of the pension.
31 May 2006, 09:18 AM
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Marriage should make a comeback.Divorce should not be so simple to obtain.
Maybe everyone would get on with living a life without thinking about who gets half the dog and the telly.
Even splitting up is part of the throwaway society with no morals and material things being the only worry people have.
Maybe everyone would get on with living a life without thinking about who gets half the dog and the telly.
Even splitting up is part of the throwaway society with no morals and material things being the only worry people have.
31 May 2006, 09:31 AM
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Now i think that is wrong if they have been living together as all intents and purposes married for x number of years. ie paid the mortgage together etc, that the survivor should get part of the pension.
I've never understood why people who live together want all the benfits of being married without actually getting married. If you want the benfits, get married. As someone says above, divorce should be much much harder. And I say that as someone who has been there - the other half brought the 'unreasonable behaviour' clause into action. (She'd bogged off with someone else BTW) but didn't have to actually proove anything.
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31 May 2006, 09:38 AM
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Originally Posted by hutton_d
If the are " .. living together as all intents and purposes married ..." then why not get married?? That way they ARE entitled to pensions etc. Or make a will. This is just another attack on marriage which, actually turns out to be the best way to keep society on the straight and narrow.
I've never understood why people who live together want all the benfits of being married without actually getting married.
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I've never understood why people who live together want all the benfits of being married without actually getting married.
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31 May 2006, 09:40 AM
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Originally Posted by lozgti
Marriage should make a comeback.Divorce should not be so simple to obtain.
Maybe everyone would get on with living a life without thinking about who gets half the dog and the telly.
Even splitting up is part of the throwaway society with no morals and material things being the only worry people have.
Maybe everyone would get on with living a life without thinking about who gets half the dog and the telly.
Even splitting up is part of the throwaway society with no morals and material things being the only worry people have.
Unfortunately these days far too much is about money, the trouble is figuring out if someone is in a relationship for love or money and I think that is getting more difficult these days.
To be quite honest at least if you marry a mail order bride at least you know what you're getting, unless it happens to be a ladyboy
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31 May 2006, 10:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Frosty The Snowman
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Unfortunately these days far too much is about money, the trouble is figuring out if someone is in a relationship for love or money and I think that is getting more difficult these days...
Unfortunately these days far too much is about money, the trouble is figuring out if someone is in a relationship for love or money and I think that is getting more difficult these days...
Now all she needs to do is live with him for a couple of years!!
Bet Heather Mills is kicking herself (if that's possible
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Well with recent rulings on divorce cases it's not surprising that many men (and women) don't want to get married. So now it would appear that co-habitees rights are going to amended by legislation. I think the government is trying to turn everyone gay, or its an underhand way to bring the population of the uk down.
After a recent bad co-habiting experience, I would never get married and now this has come about, don't think I'd want to live with another woman at all !
After a recent bad co-habiting experience, I would never get married and now this has come about, don't think I'd want to live with another woman at all !
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