Not married? Living together? Protect yourself!

Sally22_2

Im assuming becasue thats the time of night her partner got attacked?

DCFC79

Why or how would the nurse be able to help, the companies involved dont know her from adam

TheSaint_2

If you love someone, why wouldn't you marry them anyway?

Rolandtheroadie

TheSaint wrote: »

If you love someone, why wouldn't you marry them anyway?

Whats love got to do got to do with it.

I married for cheap car insurance. As the wife was under 25, it didnt work anyways.
Damn you CIS!!!

faerie_girl

Its annoying they wouldnt let you pay the bills. We've never had problems paying bills in each others names (even before getting marred) so long as the company were getting paid they didn't care where it came from.

Some companies will let you put a named personson on your account so they can deal with them too.

Mojisola

ditsydoris wrote: »

When the police arrived at 3am I expected the worse but actually the worst was yet to come purely because we weren't married. I am not saying get married!, but think about what would happen if one of you was unable to function ( even in the near future ).

Also think about what would happen if one of you died. Both partners need wills - only blood relations inherit if an unmarried person dies without a will.

There's lots of good advice on here - https://www.advicenow.org.uk/living-together/

esuhl

TheSaint wrote: »

If you love someone, why wouldn't you marry them anyway?

Or to turn that around, if you know you love someone and they know you love them, etc... Why would you have to get married anyway? Who would you be trying to prove your love to? And if you needed to go to such lengths to prove your love because you knew it wouldn't be taken on trust, is the relationship really strong enough?

Sure, some couples might want to get married just for the ceremony or tradition or because they think of the process as somehow romantic, but different strokes for different folks and all that...

As far as I can see, the only reason to marry (or not) is to gain tax advantages, rights to dual-nationality, and (in the OP's case) a limited ability to operate your partner's affairs if they are incapacitated.

hcb42

I dont think it would have been any easier for me to access my husband's bank account.

Although we do have DD set up for everything, so there wouldn't be a pressing need either.

seven-day-weekend

esuhl wrote: »

Or to turn that around, if you know you love someone and they know you love them, etc... Why would you have to get married anyway? Who would you be trying to prove your love to? And if you needed to go to such lengths to prove your love because you knew it wouldn't be taken on trust, is the relationship really strong enough?

Sure, some couples might want to get married just for the ceremony or tradition or because they think of the process as somehow romantic, but different strokes for different folks and all that...

As far as I can see, the only reason to marry (or not) is to gain tax advantages, rights to dual-nationality, and (in the OP's case) a limited ability to operate your partner's affairs if they are incapacitated.

We got married because we wanted to make a legally binding commitment to each other. We wanted to do this because we loved each other and making it legal demonstrated our commitment to each other which co-habiting would not have done.We never even thought of not making it legal.

We had a tiny register office wedding with about a dozen people there, so nothing at all to do with wanting a posh wedding.

maryotuam

I didn't like the idea of getting married but we did so twenty odd years ago because we had kids and it was simpler and cheaper than paying for a solicitor to get rid of all the legal disadvantages of being a common law wife. We just had a small registry office wedding, I temporarily borrowed a ring, kept my own name and generally put the matter out of my mind from then on.