Cohabitation | Legal issues

Did you know?

As of 2021, there are around 3.6 million cohabiting couples in the UK, a significant increase from about 1.5 million in 1996, reflecting a growing trend towards cohabitation over marriage.

Whether as a trial run, a prelude to marriage, or as an alternative to it, cohabitation is now an expected part of forming relationships and has contributed to some profound changes in family formation over the last decades in the UK. Increasingly, children are being born to cohabiting couples. More than half of the babies born in 2021 were to women who were not married or in a civil partnership. Specifically, 51.3% of the 624,828 live births were registered to unmarried women.

How to protect yourself

You need to protect yourself and your assets if you are cohabiting or considering living with someone.

If you then decide to split up it can bring about disputes on several issues. Our experience suggests that they tend to be about matters such as maintenance, the division of savings and other investments, and very frequently about what is to occur in the family home.

Have you thought of having  the following put in place to protect your home, assets and income?

We offer all the above on Fixed fees so you know exactly where you are.