![]() That’s what I probably should have done and no doubt what a politician may have advised, bearing in mind my partner ostensibly wanted a permanent future with me without any of the permanence of a legal agreement. What about the people who can’t agree about marriage? It seems to me (from the viewpoint of a relationship that has disintegrated badly 25 years later) that if couples are not on the same page from the beginning about the future, and they may not be, it would be very unwise to throw in their lot together if the scales are loaded unevenly.Īnswer? Break up. If you want to box people in, that’s fine. Well, Jane and again, you‘ve pretty much written the government‘s case for them, which is what Tony Blair had to say when rights for gay partnerships became legal, which was that marriage had always been available to heterosexual couples so there would never be a reason to change the law where they were concerned. ![]() Maybe the Alzheimer’s Society might think it worthy of a campaign? But when we can’t even get our health service working at all, I do despair. All I’ll say is, don’t enter into any live in relationship with anyone unless you’re certain you can see your way financially out of it. Hard to explain to a bewildered 90 year old whose partner has had to suddenly go into care. That’s apart from the fact that nobody will talk to them unless the appropriate POA is in place. The result is that one of the partners may have no legal rights surrounding their home if it isn’t actually owned by them and could be faced with homelessness if said home needs to be sold to pay for care costs. Many sufferers are elderly people who are divorced or widowed and are in partnerships which may be longstanding but which may not have been made ‘official’ for various reasons. Dementia is a pandemic nobody realised was happening ten years ago. But what if they aren’t? What if one partner wants a level of commitment the other is unwilling to commit to? Many just carry on over the years, hoping it will all work out for the best.īut increasingly, it’s not working out for the best. Now, that’s all well and good if both partners in the relationship are on the same page as to what they want. The position of HM Govt is this: All couples, be they heterosexual or otherwise, have all their legal requirements fully protected as long as they agree to enter into a proper legal partnership. It’s never progressed beyond a first reading because there’s no political will to do so. A bill was introduced to the House of Lords in 2009 to try to redress this dreadful situation. I’ve been living with this knowledge for 25 years and have lost count of the number of times I’ve been told I’m wrong and should get better legal advice (ye gods, how many times!) But I’m not wrong. ![]() Even then, it won’t always help you where pensions and benefits are concerned if the worst should happen. ![]() In the U.K., you can have been together since pussy was a kitten and it won’t matter a jot if you haven’t married, entered into a civil partnership or have some sort of legal agreement protecting your rights and property. Basically, this is all about the rights people don’t realise they don’t have if they’re not married or in a civil partnership. I decided to add to the cauldron of dementia related issues after hearing of the experiences of another poster. ![]()
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