Why would any man get married?

[BrilloPad]

FTFY

Thats not very reversable.

Mind you MrsBP dies not believe in the snip. She reckons 2 bricks....

[Whorty]

Thats not very reversable.

Mind you MrsBP dies not believe in the snip. She reckons 2 bricks....

No pain, no gain

[Gibbon]

Anyway, I was saying consummation of a marriage was the old fashioned bit.

Agreed, we are thankfully in the era of try before you buy, I wanted lots of 'test drives', missus was happy with one and she still happy with 'that one'

[Whorty]

But I wasn't talking about marriage (is this thing on? ) and if you're going to get married for the tax benefits then, IMO, you're getting married for the wrong reasons.

Under normal circumstances you're right but don't forget you could have a couple that have been happy together for 20 years, built up a life together, 'joint' assets etc etc, then one of the couple finds out they have a terminal illness. The law here would result in all those joint assets, and anything held by the dying individual, to be added to their estate and IHT be applied.

If there is a will then the surviving partner should get the residual after tax (assuming the estate is large enough to be hit by IHT) but if no will, or there are greedy relatives, the surviving partner may have to fight for what they have built up together.

This is a perfectly valid reason to marry for tax reasons and happens quite frequently.

All I would say to everyone on here is make sure you and your partners wills are up to date and valid. Because as Vetran said previously, even when married it's a pain to deal with probate etc, if you're not married it will be an absolute nightmare.

[vetran]

Under normal circumstances you're right but don't forget you could have a couple that have been happy together for 20 years, built up a life together, 'joint' assets etc etc, then one of the couple finds out they have a terminal illness. The law here would result in all those joint assets, and anything held by the dying individual, to be added to their estate and IHT be applied.

If there is a will then the surviving partner should get the residual after tax (assuming the estate is large enough to be hit by IHT) but if no will, or there are greedy relatives, the surviving partner may have to fight for what they have built up together.

This is a perfectly valid reason to marry for tax reasons and happens quite frequently.

All I would say to everyone on here is make sure you and your partners wills are up to date and valid. Because as Vetran said previously, even when married it's a pain to deal with probate etc, if you're not married it will be an absolute nightmare.

Friends of ours had been together >30 years, we had always assumed they were married (when we met them they had been a couple for decades) but when the Man contracted cancer we were invited to the wedding they had mainly to sort this issue out.

If one of you does get sick pop down to the registry office and renew your wills especially if you have kids. Friends who were cohabiting and lost their partner will attest this is the easiest way.

[BrilloPad]

Agreed, we are thankfully in the era of try before you buy, I wanted lots of 'test drives', missus was happy with one and she still happy with 'that one'

I hope you are still getting your annual MOT and service. If too much bodywork falls off you might be traded in as part-exchange....

[vetran]

I hope you are still getting your annual MOT and service. If too much bodywork falls off you might be traded in as part-exchange....

I hope you ae "getting serviced" more than once annually!

[BrilloPad]

I hope you ae "getting serviced" more than once anally!

As GJABS would say....

[NotAllThere]

Annulment is such an out of date notion nowadays. Why is there still this legal nonsense about all marriages being consumated?

It is odd isn't it. This sorry loser was trying to use it as a get out clause. What an idiot.

"Why would any man get married?"

I refer you to our episode of Escape to the Country ...

OK. You win

Its true we don't know. But it does seem highly unlikely. Not getting a prenup was his second mistake.t.

His first mistake was lying. But as established already, he's an idiot.

[Whorty]

"Why would any man get married?"

I refer you to our episode of Escape to the Country ...

OK. You win

For 25 years I won. Then I lost.