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Cohabitation Law Article

If you are living together and your relationship ends, you need to be sure of your rights.

Review of the rights of cohabitants and their deceased partner's estate

To many marriage should still form the bedrock of a traditional family life and therefore in turn is key to a stable and settled society. But what do the statistics actually tell us about how our society is changing.

To many, marriage should still form the bedrock of a traditional family life and therefore in turn is key to a stable and settled society. Marriage in the UK is often seen as an institution that is in crisis following the decline of widespread religious followings and the liberalisation of divorce laws and procedures, and as a result the topic has become a political fighting ground. But what do the statistics actually tell us about how our society is changing.

On 8th December, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) released the latest figures on divorces taking place in 2010. Having recently written about the trends over recent years, and what this tells us about the health of marriage as an institution, it is worth considering how these latest stats affect the bigger picture.