United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 48471
Cohabitation: Succession
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28 April 2025
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7 May 2025 · Answer
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7 May 2025
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to help improve the inheritance rights of unmarried couples in cases were the couple where cohabiters for an extended period.
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28 April 2025
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to help improve the inheritance rights of unmarried couples in cases were the couple where cohabiters for an extended period.
Source: Commons
7 May 2025
Answer
The current law allows people to make a will to set out their wishes on who should inherit their assets after their death, including cohabitees.At present, unmarried cohabiting partners have no automatic inheritance rights under the current intestacy rule...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-04-28/48471
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1797642
- uk · wq-1797642 · source updated 7 May 2025