A Review of Cohabitation: The Financial Consequences of Relationship Breakdown, Law Com. No. 307 (HMSO 2007).

The article provides information on the study concerning the legal principles that should be applied when a cohabiting relationship ends. A final report published by the Law Commission for England and Wales considers the responses to its consultation paper, and refines and hones the scheme set out in the earlier paper for responses. The Law Commission first considered whether to carry out a review of the legal position of cohabitants in the late 1970s. The author says that the conferral of rights on relations outside marriage is a topic that arouses strong emotions.