Cohabitation Law & Practice Handbook 3rd ed

Cohabitation Law and Practice Handbook is an authoritative yet practical guide to cohabitation law for family lawyers advising unmarried couples on complex property and trust law principles and related matters.

Written by an expert team of practitioners, this fully revised and expanded new edition guides practitioners through the overarching principles of trusts law, through a series of procedural chapters that cover each stage of the process from initial instruction to final hearing of a TOLATA claim including coverage of related claims.

It provides straightforward and practical commentary on the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) and examines the complex concepts emerging from the case law, helpfully illustrated using case studies.

This edition has been updated to include:

• an analysis of recent court decisions including Hudson v Hathway and Guest v Guest
• a new chapter on tax issues for cohabiting couples
• a new chapter on cohabiting couples in rented accommodation
• a new chapter on non-legally binding marriages following the decisions in Akhter v Khan and Tousi v Gaydukova
• an analysis of the practical use of Schedule 1 and a guide to preparing Schedule 1 orders