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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