Dramatic and radical changes in Irish Family Law were introduced by the (clumsily named) Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010 which took effect from the 1st of January 2011. There has been much publicity in the media of the fact that for the first time […]
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Living with your Partner and the Law
This summer saw the introduction of a new Act called the ‘Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act, 2010. In this article I shall deal only with Cohabitants. I shall deal with Civil Partnerships in another article. Up to now couples who cohabit (even for many years) […]
Living with your partner and the law (Part 2)
Last week I discussed the introduction of a new Act called the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants 2010. As a continuation, the Act also introduces significant changes in relation to the estate of a deceased cohabitant. Effectively the Act largely brings a cohabitant materially within the […]
