Whats my marital status?
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Boyfriend?
Civil Partnership is for gay couples iirc. Legally, your simply classed as Single.
Civil Partnership is for gay couples iirc. Legally, your simply classed as Single.
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Mad.
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There is not such a thing.
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Common law or single. Civil partnership is with official ceremony same for marrage.
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He needs one then (a will). Get him to write one up, surely?
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So, technically you are single in the eye of the law.
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If someone dies without a will then the law of intestacy comes into play.
Man of Honour
Q1 He will be INTESTATE
Q2 If there is a surviving spouse or partner but no children, then the former will automatically receive all personal chattels, along with the first £200,000 of the estate and half of the value of the remainder. The rest will fall to the parents of the deceased or, if they are dead, to the deceased individual's brothers and sisters or their descendants. If, on the other hand, there are surviving children but no spouse or partner, the children will inherit the entire estate. This will be divided equally between them. If one child has already died but is survived by children of their own, they will be entitled to the full value of the share that would have been received by their parents.
Get him to write a will and ask a solicitor about Q2.
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Caporegime
It is always amazing that most people believe there is such a thing as common law wife, where the heck did that idea come from?
Single.
I remember a story about a pair of very old spinster (I think) sisters who have been living together for years. Due to inheritance tax, if one died, the other would have to sell the house in order to give the 40% (or whatever it is) above the nil rate band to the government. In a married couple or civil partnership - if one dies, the spouse gets everything without being taxed on it, so the house can remain in one piece.
Ah, found it: http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article2434243.ece
I remember a story about a pair of very old spinster (I think) sisters who have been living together for years. Due to inheritance tax, if one died, the other would have to sell the house in order to give the 40% (or whatever it is) above the nil rate band to the government. In a married couple or civil partnership - if one dies, the spouse gets everything without being taxed on it, so the house can remain in one piece.
Ah, found it: http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article2434243.ece
Caporegime
There is however this.
Should someone gets run over by a car, the girlfriend of decease can pursue a civil suit for monies in civil courts against the insurance company of the driver liable in the accident, provided that the girlfriend has been living with the deceased for 2 years WITHOUT breaks up to the date of the accident.
She has however no claim to his estate.
Should someone gets run over by a car, the girlfriend of decease can pursue a civil suit for monies in civil courts against the insurance company of the driver liable in the accident, provided that the girlfriend has been living with the deceased for 2 years WITHOUT breaks up to the date of the accident.
She has however no claim to his estate.