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		<description><![CDATA[When the average cost of a marriage in Britain (in 2011) is £20,000 it is surprising that anyone gets married at all. And when the cost of divorce – which is highly likely these days for half of couples - can see all the money and property built-up confiscated by the court in the divorce settlement, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cohabitationlaw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7339672&amp;post=174&amp;subd=cohabitationlaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[                             Common Law Complications in Canada                                             By George Piskor. Nov 2010                                             (Introduction by Robert Whiston &#38; George Piskor)   Introduction: The following article is a contribution from a Canadian colleague, George Piskor. Here he traces the roots of a recent case involving common law wives and their entitlements at separation. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cohabitationlaw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7339672&amp;post=129&amp;subd=cohabitationlaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fabricating History &#8211; Cohabitation Pt 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[              Part 2. Cohabitation &#8211; fabricating a historic trend                       For Part 1, click on “ http://cohabitationlaw.wordpress.com/2010/10/19/7/      The Numbers Game According to official sources there are ‘millions of cohabiting couples in Britain today.’ Government press releases used by newspapers have variously put the number at ‘over 1 million’, 2 million, 2.5 million, and ‘over 3 million’. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cohabitationlaw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7339672&amp;post=104&amp;subd=cohabitationlaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Asymmetry, Controversy &amp; Social Meltdown &#8211; Cohabitation Pt 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 02:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Part 1. Cohabitating is an asymmetric controversy and leads to social meltdown                                                      By Robert Whiston FRSA &#8211; April 11th 2009 Part 1 of 2 Preamble The state’s view is that cohabiting is an unwritten, oral contract that ought to be regulated. It sees women of a certain age left without the financial support [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cohabitationlaw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7339672&amp;post=89&amp;subd=cohabitationlaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Cohabitation Is Not A Cure-all&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2010 02:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Robert Whiston FRSA   20th August 2010 Cohabitation is apparently a topic in need of ‘urgent reform’ and as such it crops up in erudite circles with alarming regularity. The matter has been earnestly debated in both the Commons and the House of Lords; legislation readied; doom-laden forecasts made and dire consequences predicted, but is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cohabitationlaw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7339672&amp;post=75&amp;subd=cohabitationlaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 05:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Whiston FRSA, May 5th 2009 Cohabitation poses all sorts of problems for English culture and its legal system. Why should cohabitation be so contentious when, in essence, it is as old as marriage itself and as normal as apple pie ? Part of the answer is that the epoch somewhere between the Stone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cohabitationlaw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7339672&amp;post=37&amp;subd=cohabitationlaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Whiston, 26 April 2009 The only American States which still recognise ‘common law’ marriages, i.e. cohabiting, and treat them as legally binding without equivocation total 9 out of 52 states. They are: Alabama Colorado Georgia Iowa Kansas Montana Pennsylvania Texas Utah Twenty or thirty years ago around 16 states recognised common law marriages but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cohabitationlaw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7339672&amp;post=17&amp;subd=cohabitationlaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Whiston FRSA &#8211; 26 April 2009 Britain’s statistics were adequate and ‘fit for purpose’ in the first half of the 20th century. They satisfactorily tracked salient social and economic trends and, in parts, in great detail, e.g. live births, still births, births inside marriage, out-of-wedlock births, legitimate and illegitimate births by gender age [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cohabitationlaw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7339672&amp;post=23&amp;subd=cohabitationlaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cohabitees – gifting them more property rights (Meeting with MPs at Portcullis House, March 31st 2009)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Whiston, March 31st 2009 (based on notes made at a meeting with MPs at Portcullis House) The panel of MPs numbered six including Henry Belligham, Tim Loughton, Edward Timpson, Maria Millar, Eleanor Laing, and for a short time Dominic Grieve. The meeting was addressed by several speakers including Derek Munn (?) from Stonewall, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cohabitationlaw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7339672&amp;post=3&amp;subd=cohabitationlaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cohabitation in Britain: a legal and political jihad against men</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Whiston FRSA October 2006 This article was written in response to the Law Commission’s “Cohabitation: the Financial Consequences of Relationship Breakdown” detailed in the DCA‘s ‘Consultation Paper No 179’ and issued in May 2006. (http://www.lawcom.gov.uk/docs/cp179_overview.pdf). A submission challenging the Consultation Paper’s views was made on behalf of Men’s Aid in July 2006. “Cohabitation: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cohabitationlaw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7339672&amp;post=33&amp;subd=cohabitationlaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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