Married but don't know it
Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010
http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/2010/...0001.html#sec1
UNMARRIED cohabiting couples may apply for maintenance, property, pension or inheritance rights if the relationship ends, under the above civil partnership laws.
Live with someone, even part time, for 2 years with children, or 5 years without children and you are effectively deemed married by the state.
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in an increasingly secular society, it was inevitable that the state would
recognise and legislate for the common law spouse.
The loophole here is if she wants to move in give her a rent book and let her pay nominal rent so that she is ure tenantOriginally Posted by warmcome
Blatant promotion should be outlawed
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Vincent Browne is a Hero
warmcome (20-01-12)
Frightening isn't it went through a load of that shit a few years back i wouldn't wish it on my own worst enemy
I will play with the toys that god has given me .
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now, now Ber. he/she...))))
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It doesn't always work out that way
I will play with the toys that god has given me .
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I have a Canadian buddy & the civil union thing comes through even faster up there;
he lived with a girl for just over two years (no kids) & she took him for half when they broke-up... poor bastard even had to sell his Harley
I was goofing around with him & pointing out that (seeing as Same Sex Marriage is federally legal now in Canada & their Common-Law encompasses same sex couples...)..would that mean that if we were room-mates in Toronto for 2 yrs could I take half his assets when splitting-up if I claimed to be his "special-friend"
One of the few 'good' things about social conservatism in the States is that this type of arrangement is much more limited in it's scope: New York does not allow the creation of a “common law” marriage, although if you have kids your partner gets some rights etc.
Personally I believe this law is wrong for the following reasons
It is an attack on marriage. If a married man has a girlfriend she gains rights to maintenance, property and inheritance. This money or property will come from the marriage assets. Marriage is constitutionally protected.
People who marry sign into a contract by choice. This law removes my right to choose.
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Not if you're still legally married ( if Common Law 'equates' to marriage <in this setting>, what you're outlining is Bigamy - & you can be sure as shit that Irish Law doesn't permit that ;->). If you have children with a GF when you're still legally married, the mother of your kid(s) will get rights- but you should have thought of that before entering the arrangement.
Eugen- Please don't take this the wrong way- but isn't there something deeply ironic about a Punter waxing lyrical on the 'Sanctity of Marriage" !!?
Last edited by Franken996; 20-01-12 at 22:16.
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[QUOTE=Franken996;685039]I have a Canadian buddy & the civil union thing comes through even faster up there;
he lived with a girl for just over two years (no kids) & she took him for half when they broke-up... poor bastard even had to sell his Harley[QUOTE]
I would ( and may have to ) sell my house before I'd sell my Harley - that's just spiteful, vindictive and petty.
Having said that the law is still a mess - know of co- habiting couples where one has died and the other entitled to a pension but capital acquisitions tax means no point!
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