The cynic in me would point to the reason folks were so keen on the marriage equality legislationmarriage still had so many benefits over cohabitation.
We already have in the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010. Cohabitants who are not in a civil partnership or marriage have limited financial remedies available to them under the legislation after relationship breakdown.Why haven't we introduced something similar?
This is available to either surviving spouse.There is also the widows pension should the unthinkable happen
Hardly. Discrimination would indeed be an appropriate word if cohabitating couples were denied the opportunity to get married. This existed for same-sex couples prior to the marriage reform referendum and the introduction of civil partnership.It is ridiculous that co habiting couples are still discriminated against in this day and age.
Because people should have a choice. "De-facto" status, or even better de-jure status, is available simply by signing up. Fast, cheap and accessible, if that's what you want! If you don't want that, it's hardly the business of the State to impose it.I was in Australia in 2021/22 and they had "de facto" status for co habiting couples. Why haven't we introduced something similar?
Again, it's a choice thing. Are any of these couples not allowed to get married? I think not. The State has done its duty by allowing them to marry. We don't need nanny-stateism to second guess their free choice. Especially if they make that free choice after excellent advice from your good self!Through my work, I have been able to point out the dire tax consequences to couples if one of them dies and they are not married. These tend to be couples that have kids together. Yet, they are treated as strangers in the eyes of the law?!!
Especially if they make that free choice after excellent advice from your good self!
It is also applicable if you are divorced from your spouse. Even if they have remarried. If you have not then you can claim.This is available to either surviving spouse.
So if my husband dies, his ex wife, who has never remarried, can claim a widows pension from the state???It is also applicable if you are divorced from your spouse. Even if they have remarried. If you have not then you can claim.
Yes as can you; as can your husband if you pre-decease him.So if my husband dies, his ex wife, who has never remarried, can claim a widows pension from the state?
Sorry I meant if she is in receipt of her own social welfare pension then she gets this one on top too?Yes as can you; as can your husband if you pre-decease him.
Don't understand your second question.
So his ex wife, as they have children together, she could apply for this grant?Yes as can you; as can your husband if you pre-decease him.
Don't understand your second question.
Because they are not married. If they live in the same home then there's no tax liability there.I know my spouse over a decade and we share all these nice goodies because of our marriage cert. But my single friend can't share any of these benefits with her single sister of 40+ years. Why not?
They could still get married, as long as they aren't related.One of them dies and the other has a huge tax bill on any inheritance. Jack and Jill down the road who met last year and got married on Sunday pay nothing. And we all know platonic pairs who are closer than some married couples.
Yep, thankfully that's changed.The delusion that marriage was about children is thankfully fading - it was of course always about property, power, and patriarchal lineage.
They can, they can get married.We could have a mechanism for individuals in a non-romantic relationship to be able to get the benefits of marriage.
Push for what? They can get married now.I'm surprised that more fiscal conservatives and libertarians are not pushing for this as it would allow people to minimise their tax burden.
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