Shared Subscripitons Rights

RandomUser923759

My understanding of marriage and common law partners is that a subscription services are available to both.

Finances bound by marriage and common law under the same household, from taxes to joint accounts etc.

With that being said - I understand subscription services cracking down on illegitimate sharing but can this even be applied to those who live together, are married etc and have shared finances?

(Driver for asking is the change of Pret-A-Manger to limit subscription and that husbands/wives etc cannot use it too)

user1977

RandomUser923759 said:

My understanding of marriage and common law partners is that a subscription services are available to both.

Where did you get that understanding from? A spouse is a different person, there's no implication that they somehow become entitled to their spouse's contractual rights.

Emmia

RandomUser923759 said:

My understanding of marriage and common law partners is that a subscription services are available to both.

Finances bound by marriage and common law under the same household, from taxes to joint accounts etc.

With that being said - I understand subscription services cracking down on illegitimate sharing but can this even be applied to those who live together, are married etc and have shared finances?

(Driver for asking is the change of Pret-A-Manger to limit subscription and that husbands/wives etc cannot use it too)

Why should a spouse, someone who is legally separate be able to use a pret subscription belonging to someone else, even if that someone else is their husband/wife? It's not a joint subscription...

The subscription has always been intended for use by 1 person, the fact that people have been sharing it doesn't change that fact.

*Also you seem to be operating under the misapprehension that "common law" marriage has a legal status.

To be clear in the UK there is no such thing as common law marriage. You are either legally joined through marriage (or civil partnership) or you are not.

The rights of married / CP people in terms of IHT etc. are not shared by those who haven't taken the legal step, irrespective of how long they've been together or how many offspring they have.

amanda1024

Each subscription is entitled to set its own rules about who can and can’t use it. For example my gym subscription is for me only and if I let anyone else use it, even a spouse, I’d get banned. Whereas for my Duolingo family plan I can include whoever I want as the other five people, they don’t need to be in my family or live in the same place.

Aylesbury_Duck

RandomUser923759 said:

My understanding of marriage and common law partners is that a subscription services are available to both.

Finances bound by marriage and common law under the same household, from taxes to joint accounts etc.

With that being said - I understand subscription services cracking down on illegitimate sharing but can this even be applied to those who live together, are married etc and have shared finances?

(Driver for asking is the change of Pret-A-Manger to limit subscription and that husbands/wives etc cannot use it too)

I think your opening paragraph is incorrect.  I've got subscriptions to things my spouse isn't entitled to benefit from. As for the next paragraph, I don't get to benefit from my spouse's lower income tax levels, or from lower car insurance premiums.  Some things are shared, some aren't, and Pret can choose how their subscriptions are used, as long as they don't discriminate against people with protected characteristics.