Sentences with phrase «cohabiting relationships which»

Yet this view needs to be balanced against the injustice that is caused to many individuals who are in cohabiting relationships which subsequently breakdown, leaving them with little redress or compensation and indeed in severe financial difficulty.

Not exact matches

He spoke about the Burden Sisters inheritance tax case in 2006, in which two cohabiting sisters who had lived together in a loving and committed relationship all their lives lost a lengthy court battle to avoid paying inheritance tax when one of them died.

Because the only way to have a relationship — married or not, cohabiting or not, monogamous or consensually non-monogamous, you name it — that continues happily is to have each person choose each other over and over because they love each other in a way that they want to stay together (which, of course, is the thinking behind a renewable marriage contract).

If you're in a long - term cohabiting relationship, you'll be all too familiar with the transition between exciting date nights for which you spend hours...

Within the subgroup of studies which specifically focused on social support, they found that 14 studies showed no association between marital or partner status and depressive symptoms or diagnosis whilst 13 studies showed that women who were married or cohabiting with the baby's father had fewer depressive symptoms or a lower risk of postpartum depression compared to women separated from their partner or not in a relationship during the first postpartum year.

For example, if you cohabit with your partner in a property which is in their sole name and your relationship breaks down, the Court will have no power to alter the property rights, regardless of whether you and your partner have children together or have both been contributing to the mortgage and other outgoings.

The wife posited that the motions judge erred in failing to consider that the parties commenced cohabiting in February 1983, which would have meant that their relationship lasted for 21 — not 18 — years.

The relationship of the two sisters was quite different: they had chosen to cohabit as siblings but they did not fall into the privileged categories which the UK was entitled to recognise,» he says.

This decision reflects the provisions of the Divorce Act, which states (s. 15.2 (4)-RRB- that the court in considering a spousal support award shall take into consideration the condition, means, needs and other circumstances of each spouse, including the length of time the spouses cohabited; the functions performed by each spouse in the relationship; and any order, agreement or arrangement relating to support of either spouse.

Who commits «domestic violence» 2 (1) Domestic violence occurs when a person is subjected to an act or omission mentioned in subsection (1.1) by another person who (a) is cohabiting or has cohabited with him or her in a spousal, conjugal or intimate relationship; (b) has or had a family relationship with him or her, in which they have lived together; (c) has or had a family relationship with him or her, in which they have not lived together; (d) has or had a dating relationship with him or her, whether or not they have ever lived together; or (e) is the other biological or adoptive parent of his or her child, regardless of their marital status or whether they have ever lived together.

Stack v Dowden: a distinction The House of Lords in Stack v Dowden [2007] All ER (D) 208 (Apr) did make a distinction between the relationship of a cohabiting couple and that which is purely commercial.

Couple Premarital Behavior and Dynamics We examined 14 behaviors and dynamics related to the focal relationship as predictors of marital quality: age at marriage, length of relationship before marriage, whether the couple had a child or were pregnant together before marriage, whether they began their relationship with hooking up, whether the respondent had sexual relations with someone else while dating his / her future spouse or knew that his / her partner had, whether the respondent reported any physical aggression in the relationship before marriage, whether the couple cohabited before making a mutual commitment to marry, the degree to which the respondent reported sliding into living together vs. deciding to do so, whether the respondent perceived that he or she was more or less committed than the partner before marriage, whether the couple received premarital education, and whether the couple had a wedding, as well as how many people attended the wedding.

The majority was married or legally cohabiting (85.4 %), for which the mean duration of the relationship status was 24.6 years (SD = 11.4; range: 0.2 — 43.0 years).