From a legal perspective the rights and protections in a 'common law' marriage are pretty much non-existent.
Quite apart from the romance of it all (altogether now, 'Ahhh'), once we're married, Furtle is my legal next of kin and if I walk under a bus the day after, she can be sure of keeping the house without a legal fight.
In our case in addition to the commitment etc, which is pretty obvious anyway, there's peace of mind. Oh yes - my pension as it stands, is not payable to her if I die, but will be after we are married (with a reassuring clause to say that if she offs me she gets nowt!). ;-)
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branchandroot
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Date: 2011-12-12 02:52 pm (UTC)Quite apart from the romance of it all (altogether now, 'Ahhh'), once we're married, Furtle is my legal next of kin and if I walk under a bus the day after, she can be sure of keeping the house without a legal fight.
In our case in addition to the commitment etc, which is pretty obvious anyway, there's peace of mind. Oh yes - my pension as it stands, is not payable to her if I die, but will be after we are married (with a reassuring clause to say that if she offs me she gets nowt!). ;-)