Laskar v Laskar – WLR Daily

Posted February 11th, 2008 in cohabitation, law reports, mortgages by sally

Laskar v Laskar; [2008] WLR (D) 39

“The presumption that the legal and beneficial interests of a domestic property conveyed into joint names were, in the absence of an agreement between the parties, joint and equal applied to a family home occupied by cohabitants. The presumption did not apply to commercial properties or to property purchased as an investment even where the purchasers belonged to the same family.”

WLR Daily, 8th February 2008

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