Couples
Rights
St Valentines Day is coming
up and with Charles and Camilla, marriage is in the air –
but 1 couple in 6 choose to live together– this is equal to
25% of British couples aged between 16 and 59, but do co-habiters
have any legal rights?
On Your Behalf dispels the
myth of common law marriage and the Chair of the Association of
Family Solicitors for Children has sound advice for co-habiters
According to the organisation Advicenow -
• 61% of people wrongly believe that couples who have lived
together for a while have the same rights as married couples
• 65.4% of women wrongly believe that they have the legal
right to financial support from their partner if they have been
living together for over 5 years
• 77.4% of people wrongly believe that the father of child
automatically has a right to make decisions about his child’s
future, regardless of whether or not he is married
• 47.9% of respondents wrongly believe that if one of a cohabiting
couple of over 5 years died without making a will, the surviving
partner would automatically inherit what was left – in fact
the Queen is more likely to inherit than the partner
• 68.3% pf 25-34 year old respondents the people most likely
to cohabit according to the survey findings – wrongly believe
that cohabiters have the same rights as married couples
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