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In what was an expected defeat for the government, the Supreme Court has ruled that Civil Partnerships (CPs) should be open to heterosexual couples. It was never clear to pretty much anyone why the government would, after introducing same sex marriage in 2014, choose to keep CPs in place. After all, CPs were introduced in… Continue reading Heterosexual Couple Win Right To Civil Partnership
The word ‘cohabitation’ has come to denote the situation where two people live together as husband and wife or as civil partners in a family framework analogous to marriage or civil partnership, without actually having gone through a ceremony of marriage or entering into a civil partnership. There is no formal definition of ‘cohabitants’ but,… Continue reading Barlow’s Cohabitants and the Law, 4th edition by David Josiah-Lake (3/6)
As David says in the introduction to the book, with Brexit sucking all the air out of the room (well, out of the legislative chamber in Parliament), it is unlikely that there will be any significant developments with regard to the law affecting cohabitants/unmarried families and no ‘divorce law equivalent’ affording rights to cohabitants for… Continue reading Barlow’s Cohabitants and the Law, 4th edition by David Josiah-Lake (2/6)
As one would expect, there have been enormous (and hugely progressive) advances in the area of family law since the last edition of Barlow’s Cohabitants and the Law which was published in 2001. Ever growing acceptance of and legal recognition for same sex relationships has seen the passing of both the Civil Partnership Act 2004… Continue reading Barlow’s Cohabitants and the Law, 4th edition by David Josiah-Lake (1/6)
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