Why Life Partners Still Need Cohabitation Agreements and Wills
What happens if your life partner dies without leaving you anything in their will (“Last Will and Testament”)? Do you have the same protections as married spouses do? A lot of the media coverage around the recent Constitutional Court decision dealing with this question may have given the impression that life partners are now as fully protected as if they were in a formal marriage, but that is not so – not yet anyway. First, some background. Protections for surviving spouses only, not for unmarried life partners As a starting point, note that the widely-believed and persistent myth of a…
