Martin Lewis has urged couples who live together, but are unmarried, to have financial arrangements in place to help manage their assets when they die.
The money saving expert has said that those who do not wish to marry should get either a will, civil partnership or another form of contract to lawfully inherit their partner's assets. In his latest newsletter, he said unmarried couples have no status under inheritance law in the UK.
This essentially means that you may be at risk of losing an asset you assumed you would naturally inherit if your partner was to die, the Mirror reports. This includes things such as a house, even if you have lived in it for several years.
