Healys family law solicitors in Brighton have many years' experience in helping clients who are in same-sex or cohabiting relationships and who want to protect their interests with a pre-civil partnership agreement or a formal living-together agreement.
Same-sex couples can become legally joined by undertaking a civil-partnership agreement and this has similar legal ramifications to a marriage. When a civil-partnered couple decides to formally separate, they may seek civil-partnership dissolution and the law protects both parties in much the same way as for married couples, so that neither party or their dependants, are disadvantaged following a split.
However, the law is not as clear for cohabiting couples, and, in certain cases, where a couple has lived together for many years, without any thought for the legal ramifications of property ownership or career progression, when relationship breakdown occurs the parties can be left with very different financial outcomes as the law does not, as at December 2011, protect cohabitees in the same way as it does for married and civil-partnered couples.
Healys' family law solicitors in Brighton for civil-partnership and cohabitee legal advice
Healys family lawyers understand that each case is unique and we have learned that by listening sensitively to each client's concerns we are able to offer the most appropriate legal advice possible.
Whilst we strive to ensure that cases are handled as amicably as possible, we also believe that where the situation calls for it robust methods should be employed to ensure our clients' best interests are maintained.
If you wish to speak to a solicitor about the legal ramifications of undertaking a civil-partnership or how you can protect yourself when cohabiting, please call Healys family solicitors on 01273 685 888.
Alternatively, to read more about the law surrounding civil partnerships and cohabitation, please see our list of articles below:
- Civil Partnership - The implications
- Civil-partnership dissolution in London and Brighton
- The pre-cip at Healys
- Cohabiting couples and their rights in UK family law
- Cohabitation law and procedure
- Civil-partnership agreement statistics
- Family lawyers and cohabitation law
- Family law legal advice - Living together agreements
- Jones v Kernott - financial claim of unmarried couplel
- Cohabiting couples and arrangements for children
- Civil-partnership dissolution disputed financial claim
- The formal separation agreement for cohabiting couples
- Considering a pre-civil partnership agreement
