 Cohabiting couples are able to enter into a legally enforceable written contract where they can arrange their affairs on finance and property.Prior to this act, the courts refused to regard any contract between cohabiting couples as legally enforceable.Where a cohabitation relationship ends on breakdown or on death one or both of the cohabitants can apply to court to get a maintenance order, property adjustment order, pension adjustment order and other such orders that married couples can get when they are separating or divorcing, provided that the person bringing the case is or was economically dependent on the other cohabitant.