You may need complex legal advice when the relationship with your partner fails whether you are married or not .Financial disputes arising between cohabitees are not dealt with in same way as married couples ...these comments appear to support the view that there should be legal reform so such cases are dealt with in a similar way.
A High Court family judge who divorced after committing adultery with a younger woman called yesterday for the abolition of the legal rights and responsibilities of marriage. Sir Nicholas Mostyn, 57, said that there was no difference between the relationships of married and unmarried couples, and condemned the divorce system that gives special protection to wives. ‘It is not the role of the state, in my humble opinion, to go round telling people how they should form their relationships,’ he said.