Course description
Cohabitation is an area of law which family lawyers are increasingly expected to advise on. This live and interactive online course will expand your knowledge, covering all of the key issues and developing case law.
Presenter Safda Mahmood will cover advising at the conveyancing stage, types of trust and use of equitable estoppel, application of ToLATA, key case law, steps to take pre-proceedings, offers to settle and costs, and much more.
Safda is a hugely popular speaker who has been practising and teaching Family Law for over 21 years. Be sure to join him in our virtual classroom and find out why he receives feedback such as "Safda is a genius and a perfect lecturer. Simply amazing (and a really nice guy too!)".
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Training Course Content
Introduction
The law surrounding cohabitation is becoming an area which family practitioners are increasingly being expected to advise on.
This live broadcast session, which is set at in introductory level, will cover the key issues and the developing case law in this area. You are not expected to have any prior knowledge in the area of cohabitation in undertaking this course. It will involve considering how the case law has developed to then understand how best to advise your clients.
There will be a reference to the Civil Procedure Rules in the course, but they are not covered in great detail in this course.
What You Will Learn
This live and interactive broadcast will cover the following:
- Advising at the conveyancing stage - What tips can the conveyancing team be given by the family team?
- Severance of Tenancies
- What type of trust application may be made and how is equitable estoppel relevant?
- Application of the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996
- Use of cohabitation Agreements
- Key case law, including Stack v Dowden, Kernott v Jones and Barnes v Phillips
- How does a ToLATA application contrast with Schedule 1 Children Act Applications?
- What is the developing case law?
- Implications of the decision in Lee v Hathway 2022
- What is meant by Occupation Rent and Equitable Accounting
- Steps to take pre-proceedings
- Offers to Settle and Costs
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