{"id":3492,"date":"2023-01-23T09:16:40","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T09:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edinburghfamilylaw.co.uk\/?p=3492"},"modified":"2024-02-21T11:34:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T11:34:36","slug":"new-appeal-court-decision-passed-regarding-financial-claims-for-couples-who-lived-together-dont-hang-around-to-take-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edinburghfamilylaw.co.uk\/new-appeal-court-decision-passed-regarding-financial-claims-for-couples-who-lived-together-dont-hang-around-to-take-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"New Appeal Court decision passed regarding financial claims for couples who lived together. Don&#8217;t hang around to take advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have separated from your partner that you co-habited with then there is\u00a0a key, recently reported\u00a0Sheriff Appeal Court decision that\u00a0you\u00a0should be aware of.\u00a0\u00a0 Currently the Family Law Act 2006 provides for financial claims following the end of a cohabiting relationship.\u00a0 These claims are known as Section 28 claims.<\/p>\n<p>The claim\u00a0is\u00a0\u00a0made in Court\u00a0if you cannot negotiate it with your ex.\u00a0\u00a0 The Act sets out all claims should be made within one year of the cohabiting relationship ending.\u00a0 There has for some time between some practical, intellectual and legal debate regarding when that year ends in terms of the deadline the Act anticipated.\u00a0 We now have a definitive answer from the Sheriff Appeal Court on that point.<\/p>\n<p>This Appeal was heard by Sheriff Principal Marysia Lewis alongside Appeal Sheriff\u2019s Alistair Macfadyen and Thomas McCartney.\u00a0 The Appeal Court determined that compliance with\u00a0the Act\u00a0\u00a0that an application for financial provision by a cohabitant has to be made no later than one year after the day on which the parties ceased to cohabit requires service of the Initial Writ (the Court documents) on the Defender\u00a0(the other party)\u00a0within that period.<\/p>\n<p>What this means in practice is, if instructing a solicitor<b>,\u00a0<\/b>that solicitor has to have time to take your instructions, draft your court papers get them to court to be what we call warranted and then served on your ex cohabitant.\u00a0 Once papers are drafted ordinarily the court take between 7-10 days to warrant an application (this can depend from Sheriff Court to Sheriff Court), and then service takes place after that.<\/p>\n<p>The message from this news post is, do not delay or hesitate to take advice in relation to potential financial claims you have against your ex cohabitant following the breakdown of that relationship.\u00a0 The clock so to speak ticks from the date you separate and if you need to go to court to make that claim your solicitor has to get the application drafted with the court, warranted and served on your ex within one year of that date.<\/p>\n<p>If you need advice following the breakdown of your cohabiting relationship, please get in touch with us.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson Legal Family Law has also recently set up an <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghfamilylaw.co.uk\/q-and-a\/\">Anonymous Q&amp;A platform<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0 to open up our specialised legal advice to anyone who has a family law related question.\u00a0 All questions are 100% anonymous and we will be posting the responses to these questions on our social channels on an ongoing basis.<\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Nyree Conway, Senior Associate of Johnson Legal Family Law<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have separated from your partner that you co-habited with then there is\u00a0a key, recently reported\u00a0Sheriff Appeal Court decision that\u00a0you\u00a0should be aware of.\u00a0\u00a0 Currently the Family Law Act 2006 provides for financial claims following the end of a cohabiting relationship.\u00a0 These claims are known as Section 28 claims. 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