Laura Tanguay is a partner at Birketts LLP and leads the home ownership disputes team, specialising in TOLATA and cohabitation disputes. She regularly advises on claims arising from relationship breakdown and writes and speaks on developments in this area of law.
The government has proposed a new statutory regime for separating cohabitants, including a three-year qualifying period for couples without children and no minimum period where children are involved. Is three years a meaningful measure of