Cohabitation

Our wealth of experience, combined with our reputation for finding solutions in even the trickiest of situations, provides clients with cost-effective advice. 

Our experience is as diverse as the people we help. Recently, we have: 

• Worked with colleagues in tax and estate planning to produce pre-nuptial agreements, wills and trusts for a soon-to-be-married client who was due to receive a sizeable inheritance, implementing effective wealth protection and limiting future disputes.
• Advised grandparents who wanted to give money to their grandchildren to enable them to buy their first homes, helping them to understand the legal consequences of their support and put in place mechanisms to protect their investment.
• Successfully pursued and defended claims against family homes and other property, both through the courts and in arbitration.
• Structured an unusual financial arrangement providing life-long housing and financial support for the mother and child, which satisfied the client's goals to achieve financial certainty. Our ability to develop a creative solution to a novel problem was praised.
• Successfully mediated a variety of agreements between parents where disputes over the children had arisen or original arrangements had broken down, helping them to avoid the uncertainty, stress and cost of going through the courts and enabling them to reach a bespoke agreement tailored to their circumstances.

Cohabiting couples are the fastest growing family type in the UK. As a result, we act for increasingly diverse clients including: 

• Blended families 
• Same-sex families
• Young couples 
• Parents and grandparents providing financial support to their children and grandchildren
• Couples who are in business together 
• Professional and family trustees