| The team advises on all matrimonial matters including separation, divorce, pre-nuptial agreements, residence and contact arrangements for children and cohabitee disputes. |
| Come to that, unless he or she is an invalid, why should a cohabitee without children give up work to rely financially on a partner anyway? |
| Civil partners will now have many more significant rights and tax exemptions than a cohabitee. |
| The present law, set out in the Damages Act of 1976, restricts who can sue to a surviving spouse, opposite-sex cohabitee, parent or child. |
| But in Italy and France and Spain, a different kind of cohabitee is emerging. |
| Secondly, wills should not leave everything outright to the surviving cohabitee as it will be subject to inheritance tax a second time on their death. |
