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Supreme Court upholds county ruling in cohabitation case

As I see it it doesn't make any difference if you are married or not in these cases. My husband and I had been married for seven years when we separated in 1993. We had bought a house in joint names, had a joint mortgage and both worked full time in identical professions. When we separated I brought up our three children, paid the mortgage, bills and maintained the home. Meanwhile he bought a six bedroom house, of which he rented out five bedrooms to lodgers, meaning that the children could not stay with him. Fifteen years later we divorced, he was awarded half of the marital home and I was not entitled to anything in relation to the property he had purchased. I fail to see how fairness was applied in my case. I could not afford to appeal against the decision as I risked losing everything.

9-Nov-2011

9:14 pm