Comments on: Cohabitation and our cowardly lawmakers

By: JamesB

JamesB — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 08:44:03 +0000

The government seem to be on the way to that anyway, so they have it right on a subject (this one, family law) for a change.

By: JamesB

JamesB — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 08:43:04 +0000

The answer is to abolish the csa and put that (cm) matter back to the courts, thus nudging (encouraging) marriage and pre nups.

You tell people how to live their lives in this country and they will tell you to p*&s off! and or riot. We have a good tradition of it in this country.

By: JamesB

JamesB — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 08:40:13 +0000

I agree with Lukey (not Nick). Also, if you do this, then even fewer couples would live together and the cost of housing would get even higher and society would be even more unhappy. Is that what you want? – Coz that’s what’ll happen!

By: Lukey

Lukey — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:53:12 +0000

Marilyn,
you say marriage is going out of fashion but don’t wonder why it is going out of fashion – one of the main reasons is people don’t want a judge deciding for them what their financiqal position is going to be if the relationship breaks up – and now because they are avoiding that interference by cohabiting you are trying to screw up cohabitation as well !

By all means educate people that common law marriage doesn’t exist, but otherwise please stop trying to use the law to tell people how to live their lives.

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Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:50:23 +0000

[...] In my opinion, they are a smokescreen for the inadequate legal remedies that are currently available to unmarried parents. Marriage provides a safe and secure framework to support children. However, when couples simply live together or have children and are not married, the law is glaringly deficient. [...]

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By: Dawn Kelly

Dawn Kelly — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:16:10 +0000

I lived with a man for 11 months, I put down £40,000 deposit from sale of my house and spent £8,000 on improvements. He gave no deposit but paid half of our interest only mortgage till he left e to pursue other women. He did not sell his mortgage free property as promised and has left me paying the complete mortgage on my limited salary. I am £30,000 in debt as a direct consequence to paying it alone, he is now taking me for 50% of the profits on the sale of my home which will leave me homeless. Is there anyone out there who can offer any words of advice or will such conmen always win?

By: Cohabitation v remarriage: what’s a breadwinner to do?

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[...] Not everyone agrees with me. One reader has contacted me to argue that the law should not be changed. I think he raises some interesting and pertinent points about cohabitation and remarriage, and I would like to explore his case in more detail. [...]

By: Samkin

Samkin — Sat, 31 May 2008 17:17:47 +0000

Spot on. I do not want the State as the third party in a relationship of mine. Fairness ia social construct. Why should someone who has paid 10% get 50%. Business partnerships don’t operate like that. Why should I be forced to subsidise someone who chose a lower paid profession. The law reduces domestic partnerships to economics yet does not apply a business model – it applies the current hubris re valuing of ‘love and support’ to justify the unjustifiable, usually to the benefit of women. There is already a marriage strike, 40% of Londoers live alone many burned by the horrendous emotional and financial cost of the legal process involved in divorce.