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Family,
Civil Litigation

Feb. 8, 2018

Why aren’t more law firms willing to handle non-marital cohabitation agreements?

Despite the fact these contracts end up in civil court when litigated, few civil attorneys, let alone family law attorneys, handle these cases or prepare non-marital cohabitation agreements.

Jeffrey P. Blum

Law Office of Jeffrey P. Blum

Email: Blumesq@aol.com

Jeffrey is a mediator and family law attorney in Los Altos.

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At the risk of stating the obvious, more and more people are choosing to live together in non-marital relationships. Some of these non-marital cohabitants live together as a testing ground to determine whether marriage is right for them as partners. However, many non-marital cohabitants are elderly couples who have been married before or who were never married. These older couples may have accumulated substantial estates they wish to preserve for themselves or their c...

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