questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to help improve the inheritance rights of unmarried couples in cases were the couple where cohabiters for an extended period.
answerText: The current law allows people to make a will to set out their wishes on who should inherit their assets after their death, including cohabitees.At present, unmarried cohabiting partners have no automatic inheritance rights under the current intestacy rule...
heading: Cohabitation: Succession