Lawyers call on government to introduce protection for fastest growing family type
‘Long overdue’ legislation to protect separating cohabiting couples and their families should be introduced ‘as soon as possible’, lawyers have argued, almost ten years since the Law Commission recommended protecting non-married couples.
Figures published by the Office of National Statistics last week revealed that cohabiting couple families are now the fastest growing family type in the UK, with 3.3 million such families documented in 2016, more than double the 1.5 million recorded in 1996.<...
