
Cohabiting rights: Legal rights when living together
15th February 2017 | Cohabitation Issues
Your legal rights when cohabiting are significantly different to the legal rights available to a married couple or civil partners. Unfortunately, there are no automatic rights to claims over your partner’s assets no matter how long you have lived with your partner. Where do you stand on cohabiting rights? In 2007, the Law Commission published its recommendations to introduce legislation to provide financial relief to cohabiting couples, but this was not progressed in England and Wales....