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Other worrying delusions include two-thirds of women wrongly thinking that simply because they have lived with a partner for five years that they have
automatic right to financial support.
And nearly half of those surveyed for
report reckon that after five years living together a surviving partner would automatically get
deceased partners possessions if there were no will.
The campaign is encouraging cohabitees to draw up Loving Together Agreements, which set out exactly what will happen should they split up, covering such things as ownership of property. It is also stressing
importance of making wills.
It is believed that one-in-six of different sex couples living together aren’t married and that by 2021
total number of such couples will rise to three million.

The potential perils of cohabiting are being flagged up by a new Living Together campaign. Andrew Stuart of www.yourmoney.com reports