Interesting (Times, £). You could change the word “couples” in the Times headline (above) with the word “women”. Extracts:
“Fifty-two per cent of people [J4MB: in a survey of 2,000 people carried out by Fosters, a law firm] said that cohabiting couples should be eligible for the rights enjoyed by married people within the first five years of living together… [J4MB: In a poll of Times readers embedded in the article, asking “Should cohabiting couples have the same rights as those who are married?”, 77 per cent replied, “No”.]
The government is expected to launch a spring consultation on reforming the law to strengthen cohabitation rights…
Jo Edwards, head of family law at Forsters, said that the reform of cohabitation rights was long overdue as official figures show that cohabiting couples were now Britain’s fastest-growing family type.”
We can but hope that cohabiting men will see the writing on the wall, and protect their financial assets. Huge numbers of cohabiting women are waiting to take their partners to the cleaners.
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Hmmm… Fosters say a majority of people agree that cohabiting couples should have the same rights as married couples…. while the embedded article reckons that only 23% of people agree.
Fosters are a law firm. What would they have to gain from facilitating the asset stripping of a common law ‘husband’, with much of the ill-gotten gains ending up in their coffers..?
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And a Parliament knee deep in lawyers. Seems likely to get through.
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Currently one can get married in a religious ceremony. One can get married in a purely civil service. And one can have a Civil Partnership if one wants to avoid the word marriage altogether. So there is plenty of choice about how to get “hitched”. Seems reasonable to assume people who don’t do any if these don’t want to have a legal partnership. Now of course because there is marriage and civil partnership for same sex couples they too will have to be included too. What will be the test ? sexual relations? Living under the same roof? Sharing bills? Shopping together? How long for ? A lawyers heaven, when exactly did it start? From moving in? First sex? Joint Account? Shared a bed or bedroom? What if there was no document and the marriage was just religious … And polygamous. What of “polyamory” the latest fad of multiple “partners” .
Once it was simple one man and one woman for the purpose of having children and mutual support.
Today the permutations are many and we have to be “inclusive”.
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