If you or anyone you know is involved with, engaged to or married to a person who is not heterosexual, please refer them to the Straight Spouse Network (SSN) to obtain personal and confidential support.

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If a person was married to the deceased spouse for at least 10 years and was divorced, the Survivor Benefit is available just the same as if the couple had not divorced (as long as he or she has not remarried prior to age 60, as mentioned above).

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Sweden will have to inform the Council of Europe of its withdrawal from a convention on adoption, which stipulates that only married couples or a single person have the right to adopt.

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And since 1991 the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, a group dedicated to rationalizing and harmonizing state laws, has urged states to make this the default for a married person with kids (but no children from a previous marriage) who dies intestate.

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Earlier, in an interview with the Daily Telegraph, Mr Webb highlighted that some of those claiming a married person's allowance had never been to the UK, and this was unfair.

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As part of this change, derived entitlement to the basic state pension - where someone receives a married person's pension or a widow's or widower's pension based not on their own working life but the National Insurance record of their spouse or civil partner - will also go.

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More single-person households and more married women at work means that fewer households are able to give a dog the walks and other attention it needs.

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Whether the person is an abuser, has been married several times or has a college degree helps the team to make a determination on who we are dealing with.

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