Barlow’s Cohabitants and the Law

David Josiah-Lake is a partner at Josiah-Lake Gardiner. David specialises in all areas of family/relationship and children law – concentrating primarily on the financial implications of living together whether as a married couple, civil partners or as unmarried cohabitants (and the financial and other consequences of relationship breakdown). Prior to setting up Josiah-Lake Solicitors in May 2004, David had worked as a senior Solicitor in the Family Law Department of Cole & Cole (now Morgan Cole) in Oxford before joining Fisher Meredith Solicitors in London in June 1998, at which firm he was made a partner in 2000. In December 2008, David and Rebecca Gardiner set up Josiah-Lake Gardiner. An active member of Resolution (formerly the Solicitors Family Law Association), David sat on its London Region Committee from 2002 until 2009. He is a member of The Law Society’s Family Law Panel and in 2003 was admitted as a New York State Attorney. David has also sat on the Advisory Board for the University of Westminster LLB (Law degree) program. The Advisory Editor is Anne Barlow, a Professor of Family Law at the University of Exeter.

Part I: Living together
Chapter 1: The cohabitation relationship
Chapter 2: The status of children
Chapter 3: Housing
Chapter 4: Tax and social security
Chapter 5: Inheritance and succession
Chapter 6: Cohabitants and matrimonial proceedings

Part II: Relationship breakdown
Chapter 7: Domestic violence and the family home
Chapter 8: The status of children on relationship breakdown
Chapter 9: Financial provision for children
Chapter 10: The family home on relationship breakdown: rented property
Chapter 11: The home on relationship breakdown: owner occupied property and other arrangements
Chapter 12: Dispute resolution options

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