I don't know where you are...
...but in Britain at least common-law partners get to keep half the stuff if they decide to run off with it.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Mon 18 Oct 2010, 21:11, 1 reply)

nope
no such thing, and no they dont.
( I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Mon 18 Oct 2010, 23:18, closed)

Semantics.
It's a poor source because I can't be arsed trying to google case law.*
www.channel4.com/health/microsites/F/family/rights/cohabit.html
If you cohabit and contribute to the home you get rights to it, perhaps. As for belongings, who is to say? Did you keep the receipt for everything you bought and make sure your personal credit or debit card number was on it? If not, then it belongs to both of you -- so have fun in court.

I should say that the same would probably go for friends sharing with no agreements or accounting. But don't be fucking smug just because you don't have a legal deceleration that says you are both due half of everything by default when you split.

*perhaps I don't actually have to given my friends example?
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Tue 19 Oct 2010, 0:00, closed)

easily solved by not living with them
which is over rated. On the days I'm on my own I wash my pants and put out the rubbish. When I'm with 'him' (I'm currently single), I'd be a godess and ne'er worry about such chores.

Oh and I am a romantic - just a practical one.

NB: none of the above counts if new boyfriend is substantially richer than me.

:D
( camp freddy well, would you look at that!, Tue 19 Oct 2010, 8:38, closed)

Drunk man posts stupidity on the Internet shocker

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Tue 19 Oct 2010, 9:16, closed)

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(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Tue 19 Oct 2010, 21:46, closed)