Personal · Unmarried couples
Property and finances when you never married. The rules are different — we know them.
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It is the most expensive misunderstanding in family law. Living together for fifteen years gives you none of the automatic financial claims a married person has. What you have instead are property and trust rights — narrower, more technical, and entirely dependent on the paper trail and what was said and done along the way.
Claims over a home in one name or both, under TOLATA. Beneficial interest arguments — the deposit you paid, the mortgage you covered, the extension you built. Cohabitation agreements and declarations of trust, ideally before there is a dispute. Child maintenance and Schedule 1 claims for children of the relationship. Separating joint accounts, debts and possessions.
Bank transfers, messages, receipts for the boiler you replaced. Bring what you have; we will tell you which of it matters. Being honest about the weak parts of your position is worth more than a lawyer who agrees with everything.
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