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Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2013\/mar\/09\/cohabitation-agreement-essential-non-married-couples\" target=\"_blank\">Why a\u00a0cohabitation agreement is essential for non-married couples<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Unmarried couples have no legal rights if they separate \u2013 so without an agreement, one&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-6YO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130720,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/third-of-co-owning-uk-couples-who-break-up-forced-to-stay-living-together\/","url_meta":{"origin":26834,"position":0},"title":"Third of co-owning UK couples who break up forced to stay living together","date":"October 13, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Getting out of joint mortgage, lack of savings and cost of paying for new place main obstacles to leaving, survey findsA third of home-owning couples in the UK stay living together after they split up, research suggests, for an average of more than a year.About 95% of these couples\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":55997,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/same-dreams-different-struggles\/","url_meta":{"origin":26834,"position":1},"title":"Same dreams, different struggles","date":"May 26, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r (L-R): Olivia Chiong and her wife Irene Chiong, with their two daughters. 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