IPFD 1975 – COHABITANTS – CATTLE V EVANS [2011] EWHC 945
MAY 12TH 2011 | 03:02 TAGS:
A recent case considers whether an award should be made for the surviving partner of an intestate where they had lived together for five years before his death and had an 18 year relationship. It is a claim which had to be balanced between the surviving partner and the deceased’s two adult children who inherited on the deceased’s intestacy. One wonders what the order might have been should some of the proposals suggested in the Law Commission report on Intestacy have been enacted.
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