| Heading: |
Cohabitation: Succession |
| Question ID: |
1797642 |
| UIN: |
48471 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-28 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4518 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Tulip Siddiq
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| Asking Member handle: |
tulipsiddiq
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@tulipsiddiq
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
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. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-05-07 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4849 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Alex Davies-Jones
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| Answering Member handle: |
AlexDaviesJones
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@AlexDaviesJones
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| Answer text: |
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... |
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| Answering body ID: |
54 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Justice |
| Tweeted: |
true |