Unmarried couples who live together for just two years will be automatically entitled to half their partner's estate if they die without a will, under proposals from the Government's law advisers.
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October 29th, 2009
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October 29th, 2009
The Law Commission is about to re-open one of the most contentious areas of debate in British law. It will propose that the inheritance rule which now applies to married couples ? that the surviving spouse automatically inherits the estate of the deceased even if there is no will ? should also cover couples who have lived together for at least five years. And in the case of couples who have resided together for two years, there would be an automatic right to inherit half the estate.
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October 29th, 2009
Co-habiting couples with children would be given automatic inheritance rights, like a married couple, under controversial new proposals.
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October 29th, 2009
A host of nations lined up this week to criticize a special report on 'gender-based human rights abuses in counterterrorism measures' for pushing a notion of gender as a fluid social construct and advancing a United Nations (UN) 'gay rights' document known as the Yogyakarta Principles rather than focusing on the assigned task of examining the abuse of women caught up in the global 'war on terror'.
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October 28th, 2009
Australians who wear a crucifix to work or offer to pray for a patient in hospital could run foul of a charter of rights, according to a British legal expert who says its introduction in this country would trigger an attack on religious expression.
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October 28th, 2009
Millions of patients with chronic illnesses should be checked for signs of depression, a Government watchdog has recommended.
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October 28th, 2009
British model Jourdan Dunn is not visibly pregnant but reveals in an interview inside the US magazine that she is expecting.
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October 28th, 2009
A model on the November cover of Teen Vogue is a 19-year-old who reveals in the magazine that she is pregnant.
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October 28th, 2009
A new Blackburn based Islamic TV station is set to go live on air next month.
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October 28th, 2009
Dundee's Al-Maktoum Institute hopes to acchieve the status by 2020.