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De facto couples in legal limbo
Wednesday 9th of March 2005
In practice, the backdown is likely to have little effect because of the large number of laws that already treat long-term de facto relationships the same as marriage.
But the chairman of the select committee dealing with the Relationships Statutory References Bill, Tim Barnett, acknowledged that de facto relationships would generally lack the security and legal certainty of marriage...
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